Inflating Kahler moduli and primordial magnetic fields

We study the production of primordial magnetic fields in inflationary models in type IIB string theory where the role of the inflaton is played by a Kahler modulus. We consider various possibilities to realise the Standard Model degrees of freedom in this setting and explicitly determine the time de...

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Published in:Physics letters. B 2017-05, Vol.768 (C), p.46-51
Main Authors: Aparicio, Luis, Maharana, Anshuman
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:We study the production of primordial magnetic fields in inflationary models in type IIB string theory where the role of the inflaton is played by a Kahler modulus. We consider various possibilities to realise the Standard Model degrees of freedom in this setting and explicitly determine the time dependence of the inflaton coupling to the Maxwell term in the models. Using this we determine the strength and scale dependence of the magnetic fields generated during inflation. The usual “strong coupling problem” for primordial magnetogenesis manifests itself by cycle sizes approaching the string scale; this appears in a certain class of fibre inflation models where the standard model is realised by wrapping D7-branes on cycles in the geometric regime.
ISSN:0370-2693
1873-2445
DOI:10.1016/j.physletb.2017.02.044