Baryogenesis from the inflaton field
In this letter we show that the inflaton can generate the cosmological baryon asymmetry. We take the inflaton to be a complex scalar field with a weakly broken global symmetry and develop a new variant on the Affleck–Dine mechanism. The inflationary phase is driven by a quadratic potential whose amp...
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Elsevier
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91217 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3850-3688 |