The spontaneous generation of magnetic fields at high temperature in a supersymmetric theory

The spontaneous generation of magnetic and chromomagnetic fields at high temperature in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) is investigated. The consistent effective potential including the one-loop and the daisy diagrams of all bosons and fermions is calculated and the magnetization of the vacuum is observed. The mixing of the generated fields due to the quark and s-quark loop diagrams and the role of superpartners are studied in detail. It is found that the contribution of these diagrams increases the magnetic and chromomagnetic field strengths as compared with the case of a separate generation of fields. The magnetized vacuum state is found to be stable due to the magnetic masses of gauge fields included in the daisy diagrams. Applications of the results obtained are discussed. A comparison with the standard model case is done.Comment: 14 pages, 2 figures, 3 table

The spontaneous generation of magnetic and chromomagnetic fields at high temperature in the Standard Model

The spontaneous generation of the magnetic and chromomagnetic fields at high temperature is investigated in the Standard Model. The consistent effective potential including the one-loop and the daisy diagrams of all boson and fermion fields is calculated. The mixing of the generated fields due to the quark loop diagram is studied in detail. It is found that the quark contribution increases the magnetic and chromomagnetic field strengths as compared with the separate generation of fields. The magnetized vacuum state is stable due to the magnetic gauge field masses included in the daisy diagrams. Some applications of the results obtained are discussed.Comment: 9 pages, 2 tables, 2 figures, LaTeX with svjour clas

Z' signal from the LEP2 data

The many-parametric fit of the LEP2 data on e^+e^-\to e^+e^-, \mu^+\mu^-, \tau^+\tau^- processes is performed to estimate signals of the Abelian Z'-boson beyond the standard model. The model-independent relations between the Z' couplings to the standard model particles allow to describe the Z' effects in lepton processes by 4 independent parameters. No signal is found by the complete LEP2 data set, and the 1.3\sigma signal is detected by the fit of the backward bins. The Z' couplings to the vector and axial-vector lepton currents are constrained. The comparisons with the one-parameter fits and with the LEP1 experiments are performed.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, RevTeX. The paper was completely rewritten. The errors in the first version were eliminated. The comparison with the LEP1 data is adde

Signals of Z' boson in the Bhabha process within the LEP2 data set

The LEP2 data set on the Bhabha process is analyzed with the aim to detect the signals of the heavy virtual Z' gauge bosons. The state interacting with the left-handed standard-model doublets and called the Chiral Z' is investigated. This particle was introduced already as the low-energy state allowed by the renormalizability of the model. The contribution of the Chiral Z' state to the Bhabha process is described by two parameters: the coupling to electrons and the Z-Z' mixing angle. The sign-definite one-parameter observable is proposed to measure the Z' coupling to the electron current. The one-parameter fit of the data shows no signals of the particle. The alternative two-parameter fit of the differential cross-sections is also performed. It also shows no Chiral Z' signals. The comparisons with other fits are discussed.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures. The paper was completely rewritten on the base of new dat

Polarization tensor of charged gluons in color magnetic background field at finite temperature

We calculate the polarization tensor of charged gluons in a Abelian homogeneous magnetic background field at finite temperature in one loop order Lorentz background field gauge in full generality. Thereby we first determine the ten independent tensor structures. For the calculation of the corresponding form factors we use the Schwinger representation and represent form factors as double parametric integrals and a sum resulting from the Matsubara formalism used. The integrands are given explicitly in terms of hyperbolic trigonometric functions. Like in the case of neutral gluons, the polarization tensor is not transversal. Out of the tensor structures, seven are transversal and three are not. The nontransversal part follows explicitly from our calculations.Comment: 28 pages, submitted to Phys.Rev.

PyCOOL - a Cosmological Object-Oriented Lattice code written in Python

There are a number of different phenomena in the early universe that have to be studied numerically with lattice simulations. This paper presents a graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerated Python program called PyCOOL that solves the evolution of scalar fields in a lattice with very precise symplectic integrators. The program has been written with the intention to hit a sweet spot of speed, accuracy and user friendliness. This has been achieved by using the Python language with the PyCUDA interface to make a program that is easy to adapt to different scalar field models. In this paper we derive the symplectic dynamics that govern the evolution of the system and then present the implementation of the program in Python and PyCUDA. The functionality of the program is tested in a chaotic inflation preheating model, a single field oscillon case and in a supersymmetric curvaton model which leads to Q-ball production. We have also compared the performance of a consumer graphics card to a professional Tesla compute card in these simulations. We find that the program is not only accurate but also very fast. To further increase the usefulness of the program we have equipped it with numerous post-processing functions that provide useful information about the cosmological model. These include various spectra and statistics of the fields. The program can be additionally used to calculate the generated curvature perturbation. The program is publicly available under GNU General Public License at https://github.com/jtksai/PyCOOL . Some additional information can be found from http://www.physics.utu.fi/tiedostot/theory/particlecosmology/pycool/ .Comment: 23 pages, 12 figures; some typos correcte