Electroweak baryogenesis
Abstract
Contrary to naive cosmological expectations, all evidence suggests that the universe contains an abundance of matter over antimatter. This article reviews the currently popular scenario in which testable physics, present in the standard model of electroweak interactions and its modest extensions, is responsible for this fundamental cosmological datum. A pedagogical explanation of the motivations and physics behind electroweak baryogenesis is provided, and analytical approaches, numerical studies, up to date developments, and open questions in the field are also discussed.
- Publication:
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Reviews of Modern Physics
- Pub Date:
- October 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1103/RevModPhys.71.1463
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/9803479
- Bibcode:
- 1999RvMP...71.1463T
- Keywords:
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- 98.80.Hw;
- 12.10.Dm;
- 95.30.Cq;
- Unified theories and models of strong and electroweak interactions;
- Elementary particle processes;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- Astrophysics;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 113 pages, 10 figures, uses RevTeX. References added, several sections slightly expanded. To appear in Reviews of Modern Physics, October 1999