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Large anisotropies in the gravitational wave background from baryogenesis

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-04-11 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Affleck-Dine (AD) baryogenesis can produce the baryon asymmetry of the Universe through the CPCP-violating dynamics of AD field. The field generally fragments into Q-balls, whose rapid decay induces enhanced gravitational waves. In this Letter, we investigate the anisotropies in this gravitational wave background as a new essential observable for AD baryogenesis. The evolution of AD field causes non-Gaussian baryonic isocurvature perturbations, and the non-Gaussianity modulates the spatial distribution of Q-balls on large scales, resulting in large-scale anisotropies in the Q-ball-induced gravitational wave background. We present that the anisotropies can be significantly large with a reduced angular power spectrum 102\sim 10^{-2}, and can be detected by future experiments like LISA. Moreover, these anisotropies universally reveal the CPCP-violating dynamics of AD field, opening a novel road to explore the longstanding baryon asymmetry puzzle.

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@article{arxiv.2504.07838,
  title  = {Large anisotropies in the gravitational wave background from baryogenesis},
  author = {Yan-Heng Yu and Sai Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.07838},
  year   = {2025}
}

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7 pages, 2 figures