Galactic magnetic fields seeded by ultralight dark photons

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In this work, we show that ultralight dark photons, which couple to the Standard Model photon through kinetic mixing, can potentially source galactic scale magnetic fields. Although these magnetic fields would be too weak to detect at present in galaxies due to plasma screening effects, we show that dark photons can provide the seed magnetic field strength ( <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <a:msup> <a:mn>10</a:mn> <a:mrow> <a:mo>−</a:mo> <a:mn>20</a:mn> </a:mrow> </a:msup> <a:mtext> </a:mtext> <a:mtext> </a:mtext> <a:mi mathvariant="normal">G</a:mi> </a:math> ) required for dynamo amplification in galaxies. Such dynamo-amplified magnetic fields are consistent with observations of <d:math xmlns:d="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <d:mi mathvariant="normal">μ</d:mi> <d:mi mathvariant="normal">G</d:mi> </d:math> strength galactic magnetic fields.

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