Abstract: Electroweak baryogenesis could be very efficient at the end of an electroweak-scale inflation. Reheating that followed inflation could create a highly non-equilibrium plasma, in which the baryon number violating transitions were rapid. In addition, the time-dependent motions of the scalar degrees of freedom could provide the requisite CP violation. If the final reheat temperature was below 100 GeV, there was no wash-out of the baryon asymmetry after thermalization. The observed value of the baryon asymmetry can be attained in a number of models, some of which do not require a significant departure from the Standard Model.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
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