Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-07-14
Phys.Lett. B463 (1999) 225-229
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
LaTeX, 9 pages
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00992-2
It has been observed that a large lepton asymmetry, n_{L}/s \approx 0.1, can prevent the Higgs expectation value from going to zero at high temperature, resulting in the non-restoration of the SU(2)XU(1) gauge symmetry and other symmetries. This could allow for the elimination of domain walls and other dangerous topological defects. Here we show that if the reheating temperature after inflation, T_{R}, is sufficiently low then symmetry non-restoration will occur with an asymmetry of the order of the observed baryon asymmetry, n_{B}/s \approx 10^{-10}. For this to occur T_{R} \leq 1 GeV is necessary. Remarkably, this happens to be the reheating temperature expected in Affleck-Dine baryogenesis along a d=6 flat direction of the MSSM. As an example, we show that this can neatly solve the Z_{3} domain wall problem of the NMSSM.
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