INFLATION, NEUTRINO BARYOGENESIS, AND (S)NEUTRINO-INDUCED BARYOGENESIS

被引:112
作者
CAMPBELL, BA
DAVIDSON, S
OLIVE, KA
机构
[1] UNIV CALIF BERKELEY,CTR PARTICLE ASTROPHYS,BERKELEY,CA 94720
[2] UNIV MINNESOTA,DEPT PHYS & ASTRON,MINNEAPOLIS,MN 55455
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
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10.1016/0550-3213(93)90619-Z
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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We evaluate the constraints that the COBE observations put on baryogenesis in inflationary cosmologies. We consider the supersymmetric version of the proposal of Fukugita and Yanagida, that the baryon asymmetry of the universe is created by nonperturbative electroweak reprocessing of a lepton asymmetry generated in the decay of heavy right handed see-saw (s)neutrinos. We review our recent proposal of a mechanism for baryogenesis via sphaleron reprocessing of a lepton asymmetry generated by (s)neutrino mass effects on flat direction scalar condensate oscillations. Finally we analyze in detail the implementation of these mechanisms in the recently proposed ansatze for fermion mass matrices in supersymmetric, unified, theories.
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页码:111 / 136
页数:26
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