Baryon washout, electroweak phase transition, and perturbation theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2011)029zbMATH Open1298.81491arXiv1101.4665OpenAlexW2038874801MaRDI QIDQ467323FDOQ467323

Authors: Hiren H. Patel, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf 

Publication date: 3 November 2014

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

Abstract: We analyze the conventional perturbative treatment of sphaleron-induced baryon number washout relevant for electroweak baryogenesis and show that it is not gauge-independent due to the failure of consistently implementing the Nielsen identities order-by-order in perturbation theory. We provide a gauge-independent criterion for baryon number preservation in place of the conventional (gauge-dependent) criterion needed for successful electroweak baryogenesis. We also review the arguments leading to the preservation criterion and analyze several sources of theoretical uncertainties in obtaining a numerical bound. In various beyond the standard model scenarios, a realistic perturbative treatment will likely require knowledge of the complete two-loop finite temperature effective potential and the one-loop sphaleron rate.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.4665

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zbMATH Keywords

BRST symmetrygauge symmetrythermal field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

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