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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Karouby, Johanna, Hertzberg, Mark Peter
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91217
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3850-3688

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