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Electroweak Baryogenesis in the Presence of an Isosinglet Quark

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-17 v1

Abstract

We consider the possibility of electroweak baryogenesis in a simple extension of the standard model with an extra singlet complex scalar and a vector-like down quark. We show that in the present model the first-order electroweak phase transition can be strong enough to avoid the baryon asymmetry washout by sphalerons and that the CP-violating effects can be sufficient to explain the observed baryon-to-entropy ratio nB/s ~ 10^(-10). Other appealing features of the model include the generation of a CKM phase from spontaneous CP breaking at a high energy scale and a possible solution of the strong CP problem through the natural suppression of the parameter theta.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9805302,
  title  = {Electroweak Baryogenesis in the Presence of an Isosinglet Quark},
  author = {G. C. Branco and D. Delepine and D. Emmanuel-Costa and R. Gonzalez Felipe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9805302},
  year   = {2014}
}

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LaTeX, 19 pages, 2 EPS figures, uses epsf, amsmath, amsfonts, amssymb