Baryon Asymmetry, Supersymmetry and Gravitational Anomalies

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1993-02-09

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9302236v1

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

8 pages,FTUAM-93-07 NEIP93-001, harvmac

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1749-6632.1993.tb43923

We discuss two independent issues about the baryon asymmetry of the universe. First, assuming that it is generated by an unspecified source at high temperatures, we study the effects of non-perturbative $SU(2)_W$ dynamics above the electroweak scale, in the context of supersymmetric models. We find that there is a substantial difference with the nonsupersymmetric case with the net effect of relaxing previous bounds on B and L violating interactions. In particular supersymmetry allows neutrino masses as large as 10 eV (preferred by solar neutrino and COBE data and measurable at future neutrino oscillation experiments). Second, we argue that the existence of a mixed lepton number-gravitational anomaly in the standard model will induce B-L violating interactions. These transitions would be catalized by Einstein-Yang-Mills instantons or sphalerons and could create a primordial B-L asymmetry at Planck temperatures or lower. Gravity (and the anomaly structure of the standard model) could then be the ultimate source of the baryon asymmetry. We analyze the viability of the presently known gravitational instantons and sphalerons to realize this scenario. (Talk presented by FQ at the Texas/Pascos Conference, Berkeley Dec.1992.)

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