Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2005-11-21
Phys.Rev. D73 (2006) 103517
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
17 pages, 3 figures; References added; Minor changes, Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.73.103517
The origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe is one of the major unsolved problems in cosmology and particle physics. In this paper, we investigate the recently proposed possibility that split fermion models -- extra dimensional models where the standard model fermions are localized to different points around the extra dimension -- could provide a means to generate this asymmetry during the phase transition of the localizing scalars. After setting up the scenario that we consider, we use a single fermion toy model to estimate the reflection coefficients for scattering off the phase boundary using a more realistic scalar profile than previous work resulting in a different Kaluza Klein spectrum. The value we calculate for $n_B/s$ is consistent with the mechanism being the source of the baryon asymmetry of our universe provided the $B-L$ violating processes have an efficiency of order $10^{-5}$.
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