  We analyse a sequence of high-resolution spectropolarimetric observations of
a sunspot taken at the 1-m SST, to determine the nature of flux emergence in a
light bridge and the processes related to its evolution in the photosphere and
chromosphere. Blueshifts of about 2 km/s are seen near the entrance of a
granular light bridge on the limbward side of the spot. They lie next to a
strongly redshifted patch that appeared 6 mins earlier. Both patches are seen
for 25 mins until the end of the sequence. The blueshifts coincide with an
elongated emerging granule, while the redshifts appear at the end of it. In the
photosphere, the development of the blueshifts is accompanied by a simultaneous
increase in field strength and inclination, with the field becoming nearly
horizontal. In the redshifted patch, the magnetic field is equally horizontal
but of opposite polarity. An intense brightening is seen in the Ca filtergrams
over these features, 17 mins after they emerge in the photosphere. The
brightening is due to emission in the blue wing of the Ca line, close to its
knee. Non-LTE inversions reveal that the asymmetric emission is caused by a
temperature enhancement of about 700 K between -5.0<log tau<-3.0 and a
blueshift of 3 km/s at log tau=-2.3. The photospheric blueshifts and redshifts
seem to be caused by the emergence of a small-scale, flat Omega-loop with
highly inclined footpoints of opposite polarity. The gas motions detected in
the two footpoints are reminiscent of a siphon flow. The rising loop is
probably confined to the lower atmosphere by the overlying sunspot magnetic
field and the subsequent interaction may be responsible for temperature
enhancements in the upper photosphere/lower chromosphere. This is the first
time that magnetic flux is observed to emerge in the strongly magnetised
environment of sunspots, pushed upward by the convective flows of a granular
light bridge.
