Magnetic Fields from Bubble Collisions — A Progress Report
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Primordial magnetic fields may be created in collisions of expanding bubbles in a first-order cosmological phase transition and later serve as seed fields for galactic magnetic fields. Here I present results from numerical and analytical studies of U(1) bubble collisions done in collaboration with Ed Copeland and Paul Saffin. I also reveal preliminary results from analytical studies of SU(2)×U(1) bubble collisions, which provide first evidence that magnetic fields are created in electroweak two-bubble collisions. Summary of presentations given at the International Conference on Strong and Electroweak Matter (SEWM-98), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2-5 Dec 1998, and at the 19th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Paris, 14-18 Dec 1998, to appear in both proceedings. E-mail: [email protected] 1
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