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Dynamical Breaking of CPT Symmetry in Defect Networks and Baryogenesis

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1 Astrophysics

Abstract

Based on a study of {\it charge,} (C), {\it parity} (P) and {\it time reversal} (T) symmetries we show how a CP violating network of defects in the early Universe may bias baryon number production. A static network, even though it violates CP, respects CPT and hence does not bias baryon number production. On the other hand, the {\it ordering dynamics\/} of defects in a network, governed by the interplay of string tension, friction, inertia and the expansion of the Universe, results in the dynamical breakdown of CPT symmetry and may lead to a net baryon number production.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9511349,
  title  = {Dynamical Breaking of CPT Symmetry in Defect Networks and Baryogenesis},
  author = {Tomislav Prokopec and Robert Brandenberger and Anne C. Davis and Mark Trodden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9511349},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, LaTeX with prl macros, no figures