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The Electrical Conductivity in the Early Universe

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arxiv astro-ph/9704214 v1 pith:JLS7U7EF submitted 1997-04-22 astro-ph cond-mathep-ph

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We calculate the electrical conductivity in the early universe at temperatures below as well as above the electroweak vacuum scale, $T_c\simeq 100$GeV. Debye and dynamical screening of electric and magnetic interactions leads to a finite conductivity, $\sigma_{el}\sim T/\alpha\ln(1/\alpha)$, at temperatures well below $T_c$. At temperatures above, $W^\pm$ charge-exchange processes -- analogous to color exchange through gluons in QCD -- effectively stop left-handed charged leptons. However, right-handed leptons can carry current, resulting in $\sigma_{el}/T$ being only a factor $\sim \cos^4\theta_W$ smaller than at temperatures below $T_c$.

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