Flow of hypermagnetic helicity in the embryo of a new phase in the electroweak phase transition

Abstract

The dynamics of the magnetic helicity during the electroweak phase transition in the early Universe is studied. It is shown that the boundary surface between symmetric (hypermagnetic) phase and Maxwellian phase with a broken symmetry is a membrana for the separation of the magnetic helicity. Assuming the total linking number of knots of hypermagnetic field is negative, it is proved that the helicity rising in the Maxwellian phase is left-handed.

Comments: 4 pages, no figures, extended version of published paper in Pis'ma ZHETF, 91 (2010)233