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Electroweak baryogenesis window in non standard cosmologies

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-04-10 v2

Abstract

In this work we show that the new bounds on the Higgs mass are more than difficult to reconcile with the strong constraints on the physical parameters of the Standard Model and the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model imposed by the preservation of the baryon asymmetry. This bound can be weakened by assuming a nonstandard cosmology at the time of the electroweak phase transition, reverting back to standard cosmology by BBN time. Two explicit examples are an early period of matter dominated expansion due to a heavy right handed neutrino (see-saw scale), or a nonstandard braneworld expansion.

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@article{arxiv.1202.6070,
  title  = {Electroweak baryogenesis window in non standard cosmologies},
  author = {Gabriela Barenboim and Javier Rasero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.6070},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

18 pages, 8 figures. Text corrected and several points clarified. New references added

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