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Phys. Rev. D 60, 076005 (1999) [4 pages]

Baryogenesis with scalar bilinears

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Ernest Ma
Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside, California 92521

Martti Raidal
Theory Group, DESY, D-22603 Hamburg, Germany

Utpal Sarkar
Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380 009, India

Received 2 November 1998; published 8 September 1999

We show that if the baryon asymmetry of the universe is generated through the out-of-equilibrium decays of heavy scalar bilinears coupling to two fermions of the minimal standard model, it is necessarily an asymmetry conserving (B-L) that cannot survive past the electroweak phase transition because of sphalerons. We then show that a surviving (B-L) asymmetry may be generated if the heavy scalars decay into two fermions, and into two light scalars (which may be detectable at hadron colliders). We list all possible such trilinear scalar interactions, and discuss how our new baryogenesis scenario may occur naturally in supersymmetric grand unified theories.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.60.076005
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.60.076005
PACS:
98.80.Cq, 11.30.Fs, 12.10.Dm, 12.60.Jv