Fermion scattering off electroweak phase transition kink walls with hypermagnetic fields
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-07 v2 Astrophysics
Abstract
We study the scattering of fermions off a finite width kink wall during the electroweak phase transition in the presence of a background hypermagnetic field. We derive and solve the Dirac equation for such fermions and compute the reflection and transmission coefficients for the case when the fermions move from the symmetric to the broken symmetry phase. We show that the chiral nature of the fermion coupling with the background field in the symmetric phase generates an axial asymmetry in the scattering processes. We discuss possible implications of such axial charge segregation for baryon number generation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0208046,
title = {Fermion scattering off electroweak phase transition kink walls with hypermagnetic fields},
author = {Alejandro Ayala and Gabriella Piccinelli and Gabriel Pallares},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0208046},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, 3 Postscript figures, uses RevTeX4. Expanded discussion, published version