English

Baryogenesis and Leptogenesis from Supercooled Confinement

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-01-25 v2

Abstract

We propose a framework of baryogenesis and leptogenesis that relies on a supercooled confining phase transition (PT) in the early universe. The baryon or lepton asymmetry is sourced by decays of hadrons of the strong dynamics after the PT, and it is enhanced compared to the non-confining case, which was the only one explored so far. This widens the energy range of the PT, where the observed baryon asymmetry can be reproduced, down to the electroweak scale. The framework then becomes testable with gravity waves (GW) at LISA and the Einstein Telescope. We then study two explicit realisations: one of leptogenesis from composite sterile neutrinos that realises inverse see-saw; one of baryogenesis from composite scalars that is partly testable by existing colliders and flavour factories.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2312.09282,
  title  = {Baryogenesis and Leptogenesis from Supercooled Confinement},
  author = {Maximilian Dichtl and Jacopo Nava and Silvia Pascoli and Filippo Sala},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.09282},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

34 pages, 9 figures, minor revision, accepted for publication in JHEP

R2 v1 2026-06-28T13:51:32.972Z