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Flavoured quantum Boltzmann equations from cQPA

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We develop a Boltzmann-type quantum transport theory for interacting fermion and scalar fields including both flavour and particle-antiparticle mixing. Our formalism is based on the coherent quasiparticle approximation (cQPA) for the 2-point correlation functions, whose extended phase-space structure contains new spectral shells for flavour- and particle-antiparticle coherence. We derive explicit cQPA propagators and Feynman rules for the transport theory. In particular the nontrivial Wightman functions can be written as composite operators AFA\sim {\cal A} F {\cal A}, which generalize the usual Kadanoff-Baym ansatz. Our numerical results show that particle-antiparticle coherence can strongly influence CP-violating flavour mixing even for relatively slowly-varying backgrounds. Thus, unlike recently suggested, these correlations cannot be neglected when studying asymmetry generation due to time-varying mass transition, for example in electroweak-type baryogenesis models. Finally, we show that the cQPA coherence solutions are directly related to squeezed states in the more familiar operator formalism.

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@article{arxiv.1108.2309,
  title  = {Flavoured quantum Boltzmann equations from cQPA},
  author = {Christian Fidler and Matti Herranen and Kimmo Kainulainen and Pyry Matti Rahkila},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.2309},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

50 pages, 11 figures. Minor modifications, version published in JHEP

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