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Chiral Magnetic Effect induced Spectator Process for Leptogenesis

Wei Chao

Abstract

Conventional Leptogenesis mechanism, which provides compelling explanation to the origin of the baryon asymmetry of the universe (BAU), assumes the absence of hypermagnetic field in the early universe, thereby disregard the implications of hyper gauge field helicity, that have been thoroughly studied in the magnetogenesis mechanism. In this paper, we address impacts of a general U(1) gauge field on Leptogenesis by deriving equation of motions for the helicity and the energy density of a general magnetic field, to which the chiral magnetic effect (CME) is identified as essential, and studying their effects on the evolution chiral asymmetries. Notably, CME in the $U(1)_{\mathbf{L}_i-\mathbf{L}_j}$ framework, where $\mathbf{L}_{i,j}$ means specific lepton flavor, explicitly breaks the total lepton number and provides an efficient spectator process, that can wash out pre-existing lepton asymmetries. This establishes a natural connection to the wash-in Leptogenesis paradigm. We demonstrate that this spectator effect enables the generation of the BAU, eliminating the need for both an initial $\mathbf{B}-\mathbf{L}$ charge and primordial helicity.

Chiral Magnetic Effect induced Spectator Process for Leptogenesis

Abstract

Conventional Leptogenesis mechanism, which provides compelling explanation to the origin of the baryon asymmetry of the universe (BAU), assumes the absence of hypermagnetic field in the early universe, thereby disregard the implications of hyper gauge field helicity, that have been thoroughly studied in the magnetogenesis mechanism. In this paper, we address impacts of a general U(1) gauge field on Leptogenesis by deriving equation of motions for the helicity and the energy density of a general magnetic field, to which the chiral magnetic effect (CME) is identified as essential, and studying their effects on the evolution chiral asymmetries. Notably, CME in the framework, where means specific lepton flavor, explicitly breaks the total lepton number and provides an efficient spectator process, that can wash out pre-existing lepton asymmetries. This establishes a natural connection to the wash-in Leptogenesis paradigm. We demonstrate that this spectator effect enables the generation of the BAU, eliminating the need for both an initial charge and primordial helicity.

Paper Structure

This paper contains 3 sections, 26 equations, 2 figures, 1 table.

Table of Contents

  1. appendix A
  2. appendix B
  3. Appendix C

Figures (2)

  • Figure 1: Left-panel: $Y_i=\mu_i/T$ as the function of the temperature in the presence of helical magnetic field; Right-panel: $\eta_B/\eta_B^{\rm obs}$ as the function of the temperature.
  • Figure 2: Left-panel: $Y_i=\mu_i/T$ as the function of the temperature, with the meaning of each curve explained in the main text; Right-panel: $\eta_B /\eta_B^{\rm obs}$ as the function of the temperature.