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Relic gravitational waves from the chiral plasma instability in the standard cosmological model
KTH, Centres, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics NORDITA. Nordita, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Astronomy, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden; School of Natural Sciences and Medicine, Ilia State University, 0194 Tbilisi, Georgia; McWilliams Center for Cosmology and Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7304-021X
McWilliams Center for Cosmology and Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
School of Natural Sciences and Medicine, Ilia State University, 0194 Tbilisi, Georgia; McWilliams Center for Cosmology and Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA; Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory, Tbilisi, GE-0179, Georgia.
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.
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2024 (English)In: Physical Review D: covering particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, ISSN 2470-0010, E-ISSN 2470-0029, Vol. 109, no 4, article id 043534Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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In the primordial plasma, at temperatures above the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking, the presence of chiral asymmetries is expected to induce the development of helical hypermagnetic fields through the phenomenon of chiral plasma instability. It results in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence due to the high conductivity and low viscosity and sources gravitational waves that survive in the universe today as a stochastic polarized gravitational wave background. In this article, we show that this scenario only relies on Standard Model physics, and therefore the observable signatures, namely the relic magnetic field and gravitational background, are linked to a single parameter controlling the initial chiral asymmetry. We estimate the magnetic field and gravitational wave spectra, and validate these estimates with 3D numerical simulations.

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American Physical Society (APS) , 2024. Vol. 109, no 4, article id 043534
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Subatomic Physics Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-367483DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.043534ISI: 001179504700003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85188212790OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-367483DiVA, id: diva2:1984884
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