Pedagogical introduction to electroweak baryogenesis, A
Baryon number CP violation (Nuclear physics) Electroweak interactions
IOP Publishing
2016
EISBN 9781681744575
Preface.
1. Introduction
2. The Sakharov conditions.
3. Baryon number violation in the Standard Model.
3.1. The axial anomaly.
3.2. The Chern-Simons form, baryon number violation, and the winding number.
3.3. Winding number and non-abelian gauge groups.
3.4. Solitons and instantons.
3.5. The sphaleron
4. Phase transitions.
4.1. Closed time path formalism.
4.2. A brief review of the effective potential at zero temperature.
4.3. The effective potential at finite temperature.
4.4. The bounce solution.
4.5. Analytic techniques for the single field case.
4.6. Path deformation method.
4.7. Perturbative method.
4.8. Baryon washout condition
5. CP violation.
6. Particle dynamics during a phase transition.
6.1. Particle current divergences and self-energy.
6.2. Transport coefficients and sources.
6.3. Local equilibrium approximations.
6.4. Gauge and supergauge equilibrium.
6.5. Fast rate approximations
7. Plasma and bubble dynamics.
7.1. Imaginary time formalism.
7.2. Diffusion coefficients.
7.3. Thermal widths.
7.4. Thermal masses.
7.5. Bubble wall velocity
8. Transport equations.
8.1. The MSSM under supergauge equilibrium.
8.2. Solution using fast rates, diffusion approximation, and ultrathin wall approximations.
8.3. Solution without fast rates.
8.4. Deriving the analytic solution.
8.5. Beyond ultrathin walls
9. The baryon asymmetry.
10. A brief phenomenological summary.
11. Other mechanisms for producing the baryon asymmetry.
11.1. Leptogenesis.
11.2. Affleck-Dine.
11.3. Using inflation.
12. Discussion and outlook.
This is an in-depth look at baryon number violation in the Standard Model including the necessary background in finite temperature field theory, plasma dynamics and how to calculate the out of equilibrium evolution of particle number densities throughout a phase transition. It is a self-contained pedagogical review of the theoretical background to electroweak baryogenesis as well as a summary of the other prevailing mechanisms for producing the asymmetry between matter and antimatter using the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model as a pedagogical tool whenever appropriate.
1. Introduction
2. The Sakharov conditions.
3. Baryon number violation in the Standard Model.
3.1. The axial anomaly.
3.2. The Chern-Simons form, baryon number violation, and the winding number.
3.3. Winding number and non-abelian gauge groups.
3.4. Solitons and instantons.
3.5. The sphaleron
4. Phase transitions.
4.1. Closed time path formalism.
4.2. A brief review of the effective potential at zero temperature.
4.3. The effective potential at finite temperature.
4.4. The bounce solution.
4.5. Analytic techniques for the single field case.
4.6. Path deformation method.
4.7. Perturbative method.
4.8. Baryon washout condition
5. CP violation.
6. Particle dynamics during a phase transition.
6.1. Particle current divergences and self-energy.
6.2. Transport coefficients and sources.
6.3. Local equilibrium approximations.
6.4. Gauge and supergauge equilibrium.
6.5. Fast rate approximations
7. Plasma and bubble dynamics.
7.1. Imaginary time formalism.
7.2. Diffusion coefficients.
7.3. Thermal widths.
7.4. Thermal masses.
7.5. Bubble wall velocity
8. Transport equations.
8.1. The MSSM under supergauge equilibrium.
8.2. Solution using fast rates, diffusion approximation, and ultrathin wall approximations.
8.3. Solution without fast rates.
8.4. Deriving the analytic solution.
8.5. Beyond ultrathin walls
9. The baryon asymmetry.
10. A brief phenomenological summary.
11. Other mechanisms for producing the baryon asymmetry.
11.1. Leptogenesis.
11.2. Affleck-Dine.
11.3. Using inflation.
12. Discussion and outlook.
This is an in-depth look at baryon number violation in the Standard Model including the necessary background in finite temperature field theory, plasma dynamics and how to calculate the out of equilibrium evolution of particle number densities throughout a phase transition. It is a self-contained pedagogical review of the theoretical background to electroweak baryogenesis as well as a summary of the other prevailing mechanisms for producing the asymmetry between matter and antimatter using the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model as a pedagogical tool whenever appropriate.
