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Stringy constraints on primordial electromagnetic fields in axion inflation

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We study primordial electromagnetic fields in effective actions of string theory. In contrast to a conventional scenario of producing primordial electromagnetic fields induced by the axion inflation, we deal with the Dirac-Born-Infeld action as a non-linear generation of Maxwell theory. It turns out that the intensity of generated electromagnetic fields is bounded from above by the string scale which can also be rewritten in terms of supersymmetry breaking scale in the context of type IIB Large Volume Scenario. The instability parameter ξ is constrained by the tadpole cancellation condition of D3-branes and a realization of hierarchy between the string scale and the Hubble scale of inflation. Hence, the magnetogenesis can be realized in the limited corner of the string landscape due to the \( \mathcal{O} \)(1) value of the coefficient of Chern-Simons coupling.

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We thank K. Kamada and K. Mukaida for helpful discussions and comments. This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP20K14477 (H. O.), JP21J00480 (R. Y.), JP21K13928 (R. Y.), JP23H04512 (H. O).

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Otsuka, H., Yokokura, R. Stringy constraints on primordial electromagnetic fields in axion inflation. J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 55 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2024)055

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