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- From: brahm@cco.caltech.edu (David E. Brahm)
- Subject: Re: Why do protons outnumber antiprotons?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.023824.18450@cco.caltech.edu>
- Summary: Baryogenesis at the Electroweak Phase Transition
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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 02:38:24 GMT
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- sichase@csa1.lbl.gov writes:
- > [Sakharov's 3 conditions for generating a baryon asymmetry:
- > 1) Baryon violation 2) CP violation 3) Thermodynamic Nonequilibrium]
- > There is no baryon-number (B) violation in the Standard Model by itself.
- > Only in the framework of grand unified theories (GUTs) ... does B
- > violation become a part of the extended SM.
-
- Not true. Though the Standard Model conserves B classically (no terms in
- the Lagrangian violate B), quantum effects allow the universe to tunnel
- between vacua with different values of B. This tunneling is _very_
- suppressed at energies/temperatures below 10 TeV (the "sphaleron mass"),
- _may_ occur at e.g. SSC energies (controversial), and _certainly_ occurs at
- higher temperatures.
-
- One possible scenario people (like me) study is that baryogenesis occurred
- at the Electroweak Phase Transition (EWPT), the time when the Higgs field
- first acquired a non-zero vev (T = 100 GeV or so). A major problem, in
- fact, is that there may be _too_much_ B-violation in the Standard Model, so
- that after the EWPT is complete (and condition 3 above is no longer
- satisfied) any previously generated baryon asymmetry would be washed out.
-
- Curiously, it is actually condition (2) where the Standard Model fails;
- there is CP-violation in the Standard Model, but not enough to produce the
- baryon asymmetry we see today.
-
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