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Cosmological Baryon Asymmetry and Kaon CP Violation from a Common Source

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We extend an earlier model for radiatively generated fermion masses based on the Pati-Salam group to include CP violation. Spontaneous CP violation in the early universe gives rise to a complex mass matrix for heavy sterile neutrinos. The out-of-equilibrium decay of these neutrinos generates a BLB-L asymmetry. The sterile neutrinos also act as a mass seed in generating one-loop (complex) mass matrices for the quarks. Thus, the two low energy manifestations of CP violation -- the CKM phase and the baryon number asymmetry -- can both be traced in a calculable way to a common source.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9508316,
  title  = {Cosmological Baryon Asymmetry and Kaon CP Violation from a Common Source},
  author = {Mihir P. Worah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9508316},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

26 pages, Latex. 6 figures submitted as uuencoded file, uses epsfig.sty