Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-08-10
JHEP 1202 (2012) 065
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
50 pages, 11 figures. Minor modifications, version published in JHEP
Scientific paper
We develop a Boltzmann-type quantum transport theory for interacting fermion and scalar fields including both flavour and particle-antiparticle mixing. Our formalism is based on the coherent quasiparticle approximation (cQPA) for the 2-point correlation functions, whose extended phase-space structure contains new spectral shells for flavour- and particle-antiparticle coherence. We derive explicit cQPA propagators and Feynman rules for the transport theory. In particular the nontrivial Wightman functions can be written as composite operators $\sim {\cal A} F {\cal A}$, which generalize the usual Kadanoff-Baym ansatz. Our numerical results show that particle-antiparticle coherence can strongly influence CP-violating flavour mixing even for relatively slowly-varying backgrounds. Thus, unlike recently suggested, these correlations cannot be neglected when studying asymmetry generation due to time-varying mass transition, for example in electroweak-type baryogenesis models. Finally, we show that the cQPA coherence solutions are directly related to squeezed states in the more familiar operator formalism.
Fidler Christian
Herranen Matti
Kainulainen Kimmo
Rahkila Pyry Matti
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