English

Electroweak baryon number violation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Electroweak baryon number violation may play a crucial role for the creation of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the early universe. In this talk, we review the basic mechanism, which relies on the behavior of chiral fermions in nontrivial Yang-Mills gauge field backgrounds.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0209227,
  title  = {Electroweak baryon number violation},
  author = {F. R. Klinkhamer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0209227},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Invited talk at the XIV-th Rencontre de Blois: Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry, June 2002; 6 pages