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Sphalerogenesis

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-05-05 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We propose a mechanism called sphalerogenesis to explain the baryon asymmetry of the universe (BAU). The BAU is explained by a CP-violating decay of the electroweak sphaleron. We introduce a dimension-six operator constructed from weak gauge fields: QW~Λ2ϵijkW~μνiWjνρWρkμQ_{\widetilde{W}} \sim \Lambda^{-2} \epsilon_{ijk} \widetilde{W}_{\mu \nu}^{i} W^{j \nu \rho} W_{\rho}^{k\mu}. We find that the BAU can be explained if Λ38TeV\Lambda \simeq 38\,{\rm TeV}. This scenario can be tested by electron electric dipole moment measurements in the near future.

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@article{arxiv.2505.09984,
  title  = {Sphalerogenesis},
  author = {Masanori Tanaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.09984},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures, Version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

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