Flavor Cosmology: Dynamical Yukawas in the Froggatt-Nielsen Mechanism
arXiv:1608.03254 · doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2016)073
Abstract
Can the cosmological dynamics responsible for settling down the present values of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix be related to electroweak symmetry breaking? If the Standard Model Yukawa couplings varied in the early universe and started with order one values before electroweak symmetry breaking, the CP violation associated with the CKM matrix could be the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry. The large effective Yukawa couplings which lead to the enhanced CP violation can also help in achieving a strong first-order electroweak phase transition. We study in detail the feasibility of this idea by implementing dynamical Yukawa couplings in the context of the Froggatt--Nielsen mechanism. We discuss two main realizations of such a mechanism, related phenomenology, cosmological and collider bounds, and provide an estimate of the baryonic yield. A generic prediction is that this scenario always features a new scalar field below the electroweak scale. We point out ways to get around this conclusion.
arXiv comment41 pages, 14 figures; v2:Section 4.3 updated with corrected figures 2 and 3. Rest of paper unchanged; v3: version to be published in JHEP (a few clarifications added)
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