Electroweak Baryogenesis without the Phase Transition

dc.creatorJoyce, Michael
dc.date1997-09-11
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dc.descriptionRadiation domination at the electroweak epoch is a simplifying assumption, but one for which there is no observational basis. Treating the expansion rate as a variable, I re-examine electroweak baryogenesis in various scenarios. At a first order phase transition the main effect is on the sphaleron bound, which becomes a lower bound on the expansion rate in any given theory. At a second-order or cross-over phase transition, the created baryon asymmetry is directly proportional to the expansion rate. I sketch an alternative post-inflationary cosmology, in which the kinetic energy of a scalar field dominates the Universe until shortly before nucleosynthesis, and argue that the observed baryon asymmetry could be produced in this case even at an analytic cross-over.
dc.description5 pages, Latex with sprocl.sty, no figures; talk given at the Eotvos Conference in Science ,``Strong and Electroweak Matter '97'', Eger, Hungary, May 1997
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9709321
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9709321
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/47217
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleElectroweak Baryogenesis without the Phase Transition
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