A pedagogical introduction to electroweak baryogenesis / Graham Albert White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Graham Albert, author.

Contributor:

Morgan & Claypool Publishers, publisher.

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 3.

IOP concise physics

[IOP release 3]

IOP concise physics, 2053-2571

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baryon number.

CP violation (Nuclear physics).

Electroweak interactions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : color illustrations.

Distribution:

Bristol [England] : IOP Publishing, [2016]

Place of Publication:

San Rafael [California] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2016]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

text file

Biography/History:

Graham White grew up in north Queensland, Australia. He developed a love of physics after reading some popular science books as a teenager and decided he wanted to become a physicist shortly after. Graham White is a Doctoral Student at Monash University studying Baryogenesis and holds a masters degree from University of Kentucky and has studied Baryogenesis at the Amherst Center for fundamental interactions (University of Massachusetts Amherst) as a guest scholar. He currently lives in Melbourne with his wife and son.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"Version: 20161101"--Title page verso.

"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 7, 2016).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781681744575

9781681744599

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