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Coherent Baryogenesis and Nonthermal Leptogenesis: A comparison

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-08-23 v1

Abstract

We present a new mechanism for baryogenesis: at preheating after inflation fermions acquire a varying mass by their coupling to a time dependent field. Their CP-violating mass matrix can generate a charge asymmetry to be transformed into a lepton asymmetry through decay into standard model particles and heavy Majorana neutrinos. In a concrete model of hybrid inflation we compare ``coherent baryogenesis'' with nonthermal leptogenesis by perturbative decay of the inflation condensates.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0410132,
  title  = {Coherent Baryogenesis and Nonthermal Leptogenesis: A comparison},
  author = {Bjorn Garbrecht and Tomislav Prokopec and Michael G. Schmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0410132},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures, contribution to the Proceedings of Strong and Electroweak Matter 2004 (SEWM2004), Helsinki, Finland, June 16-19, 2004

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