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Quintessence and Spontaneous Leptogenesis

arXiv:hep-ph/0112069 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.65.103511

Abstract

We propose in this paper a scenario of spontaneous baryogenesis in cosmological models of Quintessence by introducing a derivative coupling of the Quintessence scalar to the baryon current or the current of the baryon number minus lepton number . We find that with a dimension-5 operator suppressed by the Planck mass or the Grand Unification Scale , baryon number asymmetry can be naturally explained {\it via} leptogenesis. We study also the isocurvature baryon number fluctuation generated in our model.

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