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Towards Constraining Affleck-Dine Baryogenesis

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Affleck-Dine baryogenesis is preconditioned on a certain structure of non-renormalizable operators in the Kahler potential. In this paper, we geometrically characterize the resulting constraint on the field space Kahler geometry and survey the Lagrangian for correlated predictions. The Affleck-Dine field backreacts on the inflaton, and by mapping the backreacted potential to an inflaton potential with a step, we find that current CMB data severely constrain some versions of the scenario.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1108.4687,
  title  = {Towards Constraining Affleck-Dine Baryogenesis},
  author = {David Marsh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.4687},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

43 pages, 5 figures; v2: version accepted for publication in JHEP, fixed typos, added figures, and improved the presentation of section 4

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