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Can the string scale be related to the cosmic baryon asymmetry?

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

In a previous work, a mechanism was presented by which baryon asymmetry can be generated during inflation from elliptically polarized gravitons. Nonetheless, the mechanism only generated a realistic baryon asymmetry under special circumstances which requires an enhancement of the lepton number from an unspecified GUT. In this note we provide a stringy embedding of this mechanism through the Green-Schwarz mechanism, demonstrating that if the model-independent axion is the source of the gravitational waves responsible for the lepton asymmetry, one can observationally constrain the string scale and coupling.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0409014,
  title  = {Can the string scale be related to the cosmic baryon asymmetry?},
  author = {Stephon H. S. Alexander and S. James Gates},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0409014},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 Pages, typo corrected in the text