Cloistered Baryogenesis
Abstract
The cosmological matter-antimatter asymmetry can arise from the baryon number conserving CP asymmetry in two body decays of heavy particles, when the two final states carry equal and opposite baryon number, and one couples directly or indirectly to electroweak sphalerons so that its baryon asymmetry gets partly reprocessed into a lepton asymmetry, while the other remains chemically decoupled from the thermal bath with its baryon content frozen. After sphaleron switchoff the decay of the decoupled particles inject in the thermal plasma an unbalanced baryon asymmetry, giving rise to baryogenesis. We highlight the features of this mechanism in a type-I seesaw model extended by adding a new colored scalar coupled to the heavy Majorana neutrinos. If the colored scalar has an O(TeV) mass, it would leave at the LHC a characteristic signature throughout all layers of the detectors.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1309.4770,
title = {Cloistered Baryogenesis},
author = {D. Aristizabal Sierra and Chee Sheng Fong and Enrico Nardi and Eduardo Peinado},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.4770},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
18 pages, 2 figures; V2 references added, accepted for publication in JCAP