Spontaneous B-L breaking as the origin of the hot early universe

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2012.05.001zbMATH Open1246.83246arXiv1202.6679OpenAlexW2107326325MaRDI QIDQ447413FDOQ447413

Authors: W. Buchmüller, V. Domcke, K. Schmitz 

Publication date: 3 September 2012

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The decay of a false vacuum of unbroken B-L symmetry is an intriguing and testable mechanism to generate the initial conditions of the hot early universe. If B-L is broken at the grand unification scale, the false vacuum phase yields hybrid inflation, ending in tachyonic preheating. The dynamics of the B-L breaking Higgs field and thermal processes produce an abundance of heavy neutrinos whose decays generate entropy, baryon asymmetry and gravitino dark matter. We study the phase transition for the full supersymmetric Abelian Higgs model. For the subsequent reheating process we give a detailed time-resolved description of all particle abundances. The competition of cosmic expansion and entropy production leads to an intermediate period of constant 'reheating' temperature, during which baryon asymmetry and dark matter are produced. Consistency of hybrid inflation, leptogenesis and gravitino dark matter implies relations between neutrino parameters and superparticle masses. In particular, for a gluino mass of 1 TeV, we find a lower bound on the gravitino mass of 10 GeV.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.6679

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zbMATH Keywords

phase transitiondark mattergravitinobaryon asymmetryleptogenesisreheating

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35)

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