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Top transport in electroweak baryogenesis

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-10-27 v2

Abstract

In non-supersymmetric models of electroweak baryogenesis the top quark plays a crucial role. Its CP-violating source term can be calculated in the WKB approximation. We point out how to resolve certain discrepancies between computations starting from the Dirac equation and the Schwinger--Keldysh formalism. We also improve on the transport equations, keeping the W-scatterings at finite rate. We apply these results to a model with one Higgs doublet, augmented by dimension-6 operators, where our refinements lead to an increase in the baryon asymmetry by a factor of up to about 5.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0604159,
  title  = {Top transport in electroweak baryogenesis},
  author = {Lars Fromme and Stephan J. Huber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0604159},
  year   = {2010}
}

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17 pages, 3 figures, references added

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