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Lepton-Flavored Electroweak Baryogenesis

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-01-03 v1

Abstract

We explore lepton-flavored electroweak baryogenesis, driven by CP-violation in leptonic Yukawa sector, using the τμ\tau-\mu system in the two Higgs doublet model as an example. This setup generically yields, together with the flavor-changing decay hτμh\to \tau \mu, a tree-level Jarlskog-invariant that can drive dynamical generation of baryon asymmetry during a first-order electroweak phase transition and results in CP-violating effect in the decay hττh\to \tau\tau. We find that the observed baryon asymmetry can be generated in parameter space compatible with current experimental results for the decays hτμh\to \tau \mu, hττh\to \tau\tau and τμγ\tau \rightarrow \mu \gamma, as well as the present bound on the electric dipole moment of the electron. The baryon asymmetry generated is intrinsically correlated with the CP-violating decay hττh\to \tau\tau and the flavor-changing decay hτμh\to \tau\mu, which thus may serve as "smoking guns" to test lepton-flavored electroweak baryogenesis.

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@article{arxiv.1609.09849,
  title  = {Lepton-Flavored Electroweak Baryogenesis},
  author = {Huai-Ke Guo and Ying-Ying Li and Tao Liu and Michael Ramsey-Musolf and Jing Shu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.09849},
  year   = {2018}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure

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