Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis in the Two Higgs-Doublet Model
Abstract
We perform the first investigation of cold electroweak baryogenesis in the two Higgs-doublet model (2HDM). The electroweak symmetry breaking transition is assumed to occur through a spinodal instability from a super-cooled initial state. We consider the creation of net Chern-Simons number, which through the axial anomaly is equivalent to baryon number. CP-violation is explicit in the scalar potential, but only in combination with P-violation is it possible for an asymmetry to be generated. This is introduced through the leading C- and P-breaking, but CP-invariant, term expected to arise upon integrating out the fermions in the theory. We perform real-time lattice simulations of the transition, and find the coefficient of this term required for successful bayogenesis.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1203.5012,
title = {Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis in the Two Higgs-Doublet Model},
author = {Anders Tranberg and Bin Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.5012},
year = {2015}
}
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20 pages, 18 figures