Abel, S. A. and Gupta, R. S. and Scholtz, J. (2019) 'Out-of-the-box baryogenesis during relaxation.', Physical review D., 100 . 015034.
Abstract
We show that spontaneous baryogenesis occurs automatically in relaxion models if the reheating temperature is larger than the weak scale, provided the Standard Model fields are charged under the U(1) of which the relaxion is a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson. During the slow roll, the relaxion breaks CPT, biasing the thermal equilibrium in favor of baryons, with sphalerons providing the necessary baryon number violation. We calculate the resulting baryon asymmetry, explore the possible constraints on this scheme and show that there is a swath of parameter space in which the current observations are matched. Successful baryogenesis can be achieved for a range of relaxion masses between 10−10 and 10−5 eV. The mechanism operates precisely in the region of parameter space where recent work has shown relaxion oscillations to be a dark matter candidate.
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Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution. Download PDF (324Kb) |
Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.015034 |
Publisher statement: | Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3. |
Date accepted: | No date available |
Date deposited: | 25 July 2019 |
Date of first online publication: | 19 July 2019 |
Date first made open access: | 25 July 2019 |
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