Phase transitions and baryogenesis from decays

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2017)122zbMATH Open1383.85017arXiv1704.01979OpenAlexW2963416360MaRDI QIDQ1709341FDOQ1709341

Authors: Brian Shuve, Carlos Tamarit 

Publication date: 27 March 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study scenarios in which the baryon asymmetry is generated from the decay of a particle whose mass originates from the spontaneous breakdown of a symmetry. This is realized in many models, including low-scale leptogenesis and theories with classical scale invariance. Symmetry breaking in the early universe proceeds through a phase transition that gives the parent particle a time-dependent mass, which provides an additional departure from thermal equilibrium that could modify the efficiency of baryogenesis from out-of-equilibrium decays. We characterize the effects of various types of phase transitions and show that an enhancement in the baryon asymmetry from decays is possible if the phase transition is of the second order, although such models are typically fine-tuned. We also stress the role of new annihilation modes that deplete the parent particle abundance in models realizing such a phase transition, reducing the efficacy of baryogenesis. A proper treatment of baryogenesis in such models therefore requires the inclusion of the effects we study in this paper.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.01979

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmology of theories beyond the SMneutrino physicsspontaneous symmetry breakingthermal field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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