Histoire et chronologie de l'Univers

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vignette|upright=1.5|Schéma simplifié des principales étapes de la formation de l'Univers.1- Big Bang.2- Ère de l'inflation.3- Découplage de l'interaction forte et faible et formation des particules.4- Formation des étoiles et galaxies. Lhistoire et la chronologie de l'Univers décrit l'évolution de l’Univers en s'appuyant sur le modèle standard de la cosmologie, fondé sur le modèle cosmologique du Big Bang et les recherches en cosmologie et en astronomie. Selon plusieurs estimations, l'âge de l'Univers serait d'environ d'années. La formation de l'Univers commence par l'ère du rayonnement, suivie de l'ère de la matière. Les modèles cosmologiques actuels indiquent que la structure de l'observable s'est formée au cours des étapes suivantes : Univers nouveau-né, état plasma primordial, croissance linéaire des structures, croissance non linéaire des structures, et évolution astrophysique. Les premières ères sont celles de l'Univers primordial, encore assez mal com

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Relic gravitational waves (GWs) can be produced by primordial magnetic fields. However, not much is known about the resulting GW amplitudes and their dependence on the details of the generation mechanism. Here we treat magnetic field generation through the chiral magnetic effect (CME) as a generic mechanism and explore its dependence on the speed of generation (the product of magnetic diffusivity and characteristic wavenumber) and the speed characterizing the maximum magnetic field strength expected from the CME. When the latter exceeds the former (regime I), which is the regime applicable to the early universe, we obtain an inverse cascade with moderate GW energy that scales with the third power of the magnetic energy. When the generation speed exceeds the CME limit (regime II), the GW energy continues to increase without a corresponding increase of magnetic energy. In the early kinematic phase, the GW energy spectrum (per linear wavenumber interval) has opposite slopes in both regimes and is characterized by an inertial range spectrum in regime I and a white noise spectrum in regime II. The occurrence of these two slopes is shown to be a generic consequence of a nearly monochromatic exponential growth of the magnetic field. The resulting GW energy is found to be proportional to the fifth power of the limiting CME speed and the first power of the generation speed.

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

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Chiral fermion asymmetry in high-energy plasma simulations

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a quantum relativistic effect that describes the appearance of an additional electric current along a magnetic field. It is caused by an asymmetry between the number densities of left- and right-handed fermions, which can be maintained at high energies when the chirality flipping rate can be neglected, for example in the early Universe. The inclusion of the CME in the Maxwell equations leads to a modified set of magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) equations. The CME is studied here in numerical simulations with the Pencil Code. We discuss how the CME is implemented in the code and how the time step and the spatial resolution of a simulation need to be adjusted in presence of a chiral asymmetry. The CME plays a key role in the evolution of magnetic fields, since it results in a dynamo effect associated with an additional term in the induction equation. This term is formally similar to the alpha effect in classical mean-field MHD. However, the chiral dynamo can operate without turbulence and is associated with small spatial scales that can be, in the case of the early Universe, orders of magnitude below the Hubble radius. A chiral alpha mu effect has also been identified in mean-field theory. It occurs in the presence of turbulence, but is not related to kinetic helicity. Depending on the plasma parameters, chiral dynamo instabilities can amplify magnetic fields over many orders of magnitude. These instabilities can potentially affect the propagation of MHD waves. Our numerical simulations demonstrate strong modifications of the dispersion relation for MHD waves for large chiral asymmetry. We also study the coupling between the evolution of the chiral chemical potential and the ordinary chemical potential, which is proportional to the sum of the number densities of left- and right-handed fermions. An important consequence of this coupling is the emergence of chiral magnetic waves (CMWs). We confirm numerically that linear CMWs and MHD waves are not interacting. Our simulations suggest that the chemical potential has only a minor effect on the non-linear evolution of the chiral dynamo.

2020

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Energetics of turbulence generated by chiral MHD dynamos

An asymmetry in the number density of left- and right-handed fermions is known to give rise to a new term in the induction equation that can result in a dynamo instability. At high temperatures, when a chiral asymmetry can survive for long enough, this chiral dynamo instability can amplify magnetic fields efficiently, which in turn drive turbulence via the Lorentz force. While it has been demonstrated in numerical simulations that this chiral magnetically driven turbulence exists and strongly affects the dynamics of the magnetic field, the details of this process remain unclear. The goal of this paper is to analyse the energetics of chiral magnetically driven turbulence and its effect on the generation and dynamics of the magnetic field using direct numerical simulations. We study these effects for different initial conditions, including a variation of the initial chiral chemical potential and the magnetic Prandtl number, PrM. In particular, we determine the ratio of kinetic to magnetic energy, Υ, in chiral magnetically driven turbulence. Within the parameter space explored in this study, Υ reaches a value of approximately 0.064–0.074–independently of the initial chiral asymmetry and for PrM=1. Our simulations suggest, that Υ decreases as a power law when increasing PrM by decreasing the viscosity. While the exact scaling depends on the details of the fitting criteria and the Reynolds number regime, an approximate result of Υ(PrM)=0.1 Pr−0.4M is reported. Using the findings from our numerical simulations, we analyse the energetics of chiral magnetically driven turbulence in the early Universe.

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2019

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Chiral fermion asymmetry in high-energy plasma simulations

2020