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Pulsar Kicks With Modified URCA and Electrons in Landau Levels
We derive the energy asymmetry given the proto-neutron star during the time
when the neutrino sphere is near the surface of the proto-neutron star, using
the modified URCA process. The electrons produced with the anti-neutrinos are
in Landau levels due to the strong magnetic field, and this leads to asymmetry
in the neutrino momentum, and a pulsar kick. The magnetic field must be strong
enough for a large fraction of the eletrons to be in the lowest Landau level,
however, there is no direct dependence of our pulsar velocity on the strength
of the magnetic field. Our main prediction is that the large pulsar kicks start
at about 10 s and last for about 10 s, with the corresponding neutrinos
correlated in the direction of the magnetic field. We predict a pulsar velocity
of 1.03 km/s, which reaches 1000 km/s if T
K.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figure
Non-abelian dynamics in first-order cosmological phase transitions
Bubble collisions in cosmological phase transitions are explored, taking the
non-abelian character of the gauge fields into account. Both the QCD and
electroweak phase transitions are considered. Numerical solutions of the field
equations in several limits are presented.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to the CosPA 2003 Cosmology and
Particle Astrophysics Symposium. Typos correcte
Role of Charged Gauge Fields in Generating Magnetic Seed Fields in Bubble Collisions during the Cosmological Electroweak Phase Transition
We calculate the magnetic field generated during bubble collisions in a
first-order electroweak phase transition that may occur for some choices of
parameters in the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model. We show that for
sufficiently gentle collisions, where the Higgs field is relatively unperturbed
in the bubble overlap region, the equations of motion can be linearized so that
in the absence of fermions the charged W fields are the source of the
electromagnetic current for generating the seed fields. Solutions of the
equations of motion for the charged gauge fields and Maxwell's equations for
the magnetic field in O(1,2) space-time symmetry are expressed in closed form
by applying boundary conditions at the time of collision. Our results indicate
that the magnetic fields generated by charged fields in the collision
are comparable to those found in previous work. The magnetic fields so produced
could seed galactic and extra-galactic magnetic fields observed today.Comment: 15 Pages, 7 Figure
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