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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier,
2014-10-29T13:54:27Z.
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