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Simulations of Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis: Dependence on the source of CP-violation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-07-04 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We compute the baryon asymmetry created in a tachyonic electroweak symmetry breaking transition, focusing on the dependence on the source of effective CP-violation. Earlier simulations of Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis have almost exclusively considered a very specific CP-violating term explicitly biasing Chern-Simons number. We compare four different dimension six, scalar-gauge CP-violating terms, involving both the Higgs field and another dynamical scalar coupled to SU(2) or U(1) gauge fields. We find that for sensible values of parameters, all implementations can generate a baryon asymmetry consistent with observations, showing that baryogenesis is a generic outcome of a fast tachyonic electroweak transition.

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@article{arxiv.1803.07346,
  title  = {Simulations of Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis: Dependence on the source of CP-violation},
  author = {Zong-Gang Mou and Paul M. Saffin and Anders Tranberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.07346},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

16 pages, 7 figures, typos corrected to match the published version