分类: 物理学 >> 基本粒子与场物理学 提交时间: 2017-08-24
摘要: We explore the possibility that the observed baryon asymmetry of the universe is the result of an earlier phase transition in which an extended gauge sector breaks down into the SU(3)C × SU(2)L × U(1)Y of the Standard Model. Our prototypical example is the Topflavor model, in which there is a separate SU(2)1 for the third generation from the SU(2)2 felt by the first two generations. We show that the breakdown of SU(2)1 × SU(2)2 → SU(2)L results in lepton number being asymmetrically distributed through-out the three families, and provided the SM electroweak phase transition is not strongly first order, results in a non-zero baryon number, which for parameter choices that can be explored at the LHC, may explain the observed baryon asymmetry.