Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1997-07-24
Phys.Rev. D57 (1998) 2079-2088
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
20 pages, no figures, Latex
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.57.2079
In electroweak baryogenesis, a domain wall between the spontaneously broken and unbroken phases acts as a separator of baryon (or lepton) number, generating a baryon asymmetry in the universe. If the wall is thin relative to plasma mean free paths, one computes baryon current into the broken phase by determining the quantum mechanical transmission of plasma components in the potential of the spatially changing Higgs VEV. We show that baryon current can also be obtained using a statistical density operator. This new formulation of the problem provides a consistent framework for studying the influence of quasiparticle lifetimes on baryon current. We show that when the plasma has no self-interactions, familiar results are reproduced. When plasma self-interactions are included, the baryon current into the broken phase is related to an imaginary time temperature Green's function.
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