Radiatively-induced gravitational leptogenesis
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-08-18 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We demonstrate how loop effects in gravitational backgrounds lead to a difference in the propagation of matter and antimatter, and show this is forbidden in flat space due to CPT and translation invariance. This mechanism, which is naturally present in beyond the standard model (BSM) theories exhibiting C and CP violation, generates a curvature-dependent chemical potential for leptons in the low-energy effective Lagrangian, allowing a matter-antimatter asymmetry to be generated in thermodynamic equilibrium, below the BSM scale.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1508.04119,
title = {Radiatively-induced gravitational leptogenesis},
author = {J. I. McDonald and G. M. Shore},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.04119},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
7 pages. 6 figures