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Generation of Large Lepton Asymmetries

arXiv:hep-ph/9709289 · doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00606-3

Abstract

We present here a realistic model to produce a very large lepton asymmetry L of 0.1 to 1, without producing a large baryon asymmetry. The model is based on the Affleck and Dine scenario, in which the field acquiring a large vacuum expectation value during inflation is a s-neutrino right. We require to be large enough for the electroweak symmetry to be spontaneously broken at all temperatures after inflation, with the consequent suppression of sphaleron transitions.

17 pp., LaTex file plus one figure, added some references in the introduction