Friday, December 7, 2012

1212.1416 (Maxim Dvornikov et al.)

Lepton asymmetry growth in symmetric phase of electroweak plasma with hypermagnetic fields versus its washing out by sphalerons    [PDF]

Maxim Dvornikov, Victor B. Semikoz
We study lepton asymmetry evolution in plasma of the early Universe before the electroweak phase transition (EWPT) accounting for chirality flip processes via Higgs decays (inverse decays) entering equilibrium at temperatures below T_RL ~ 10 TeV, T_EW < T < T_RL. We solve appropriate kinetic equations for leptons and Higgs bosons taking into account the lepton number violation due to Abelian anomalies for right- and left electrons and neutrinos in the self-consistent hypercharge field obeying Maxwell equations modified by the contribution of the Standard Model of electroweak interactions. The violation of left lepton numbers and corresponding violation of the baryon number due to sphaleron processes in symmetric phase is taken into account as well. Assuming the Chern-Simons (CS) wave configuration of the seed hypercharge field, we get the estimates of baryon and lepton asymmetries evolved from the primordial right electron asymmetry existing alone as partial asymmetry at T > T_RL. One finds a strong dependence of the asymmetries on the CS wave number. We predict a non-zero chiral asymmetry \Delta \mu = \mu_e_R - \mu_e_L \neq 0 in this scenario evolved down to the EWPT moment that can be used as an initial value for the Maxwellian field evolution after EWPT.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1416

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