Electroweak phase transition and entropy release in the early universe
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2018-01-31 v1
Abstract
It is shown that the vacuum-like energy of the Higgs potential at non-zero temperatures leads, in the course of the cosmological expansion, to a small but non-negligible rise of the entropy density in the comoving volume. This increase is calculated in the frameworks of the minimal standard model. The result can have a noticeable effect on the outcome of baryo-through-leptogenesis.
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@article{arxiv.1711.01801,
title = {Electroweak phase transition and entropy release in the early universe},
author = {Arnab Chaudhuri and Alexander Dolgov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.01801},
year = {2018}
}
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