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Is the baryon asymmetry of the Universe related to galactic magnetic fields?

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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 80, Issue 8, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.083510

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  1. Spanish [FPA2008-00319/FPA, PROMETEO/2009/091]
  2. RFBR [07-02-00127a]

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A tiny hypermagnetic field generated before the electroweak phase transition (EWPT) associated to the generation of elementary particle masses can polarize the early Universe hot plasma at huge redshifts z >= 10(15). The anomalous violation of the right-handed electron current characteristic of the EWPT converts the lepton asymmetry into a baryon asymmetry. Under reasonable approximations, the magnetic field strength inferred by requiring such leptogenic'' origin for the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe matches the large-scale cosmological magnetic field strengths estimated from current astronomical observations.

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