A pedagogical introduction to electroweak baryogenesis /

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"Version: 20161101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction2. The Sakharov conditions -- 3. Baryon number violation in the Standard Model -- 3.1. The axial anomaly -- 3.2. The Chern-Simons form, baryon number violation, and the winding number -- 3.3. Winding number and non-abelian gauge groups -- 3.4. Solitons and instantons -- 3.5. The sphaleron4. Phase transitions -- 4.1. Closed time path formalism -- 4.2. A brief review of the effective potential at zero temperature -- 4.3. The effective potential at finite temperature -- 4.4. The bounce solution -- 4.5. Analytic techniques for the single field case -- 4.6. Path deformation method -- 4.7. Perturbative method -- 4.8. Baryon washout condition5. CP violation -- 6. Particle dynamics during a phase transition -- 6.1. Particle current divergences and self-energy -- 6.2. Transport coefficients and sources -- 6.3. Local equilibrium approximations -- 6.4. Gauge and supergauge equilibrium -- 6.5. Fast rate approximations7. Plasma and bubble dynamics -- 7.1. Imaginary time formalism -- 7.2. Diffusion coefficients -- 7.3. Thermal widths -- 7.4. Thermal masses -- 7.5. Bubble wall velocity8. Transport equations -- 8.1. The MSSM under supergauge equilibrium -- 8.2. Solution using fast rates, diffusion approximation, and ultrathin wall approximations -- 8.3. Solution without fast rates -- 8.4. Deriving the analytic solution -- 8.5. Beyond ultrathin walls9. The baryon asymmetry -- 10. A brief phenomenological summary -- 11. Other mechanisms for producing the baryon asymmetry -- 11.1. Leptogenesis -- 11.2. Affleck-Dine -- 11.3. Using inflation -- 12. Discussion and outlook.This is an in-depth look at baryon number violation in the Standard Model including the necessary background in finite temperature field theory, plasma dynamics and how to calculate the out of equilibrium evolution of particle number densities throughout a phase transition. It is a self-contained pedagogical review of the theoretical background to electroweak baryogenesis as well as a summary of the other prevailing mechanisms for producing the asymmetry between matter and antimatter using the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model as a pedagogical tool whenever appropriate.Upper level graduate, professional researchers, scientists.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.Graham White grew up in north Queensland, Australia. He developed a love of physics after reading some popular science books as a teenager and decided he wanted to become a physicist shortly after. Graham White is a Doctoral Student at Monash University studying Baryogenesis and holds a masters degree from University of Kentucky and has studied Baryogenesis at the Amherst Center for fundamental interactions (University of Massachusetts Amherst) as a guest scholar. He currently lives in Melbourne with his wife and son.Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 7, 2016).

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1 online resource (various pagings) :color illustrations.

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SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics.
SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory.
SCIENCE / Physics / General.
Baryon number.
CP violation (Nuclear physics)
Electroweak interactions.
Quantum Physics.
Cosmology and the universe.
Particle & High Energy Physics.

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