1. Baryon asymmetry of the universe and neutrinos
- Author
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Mikhail Shaposhnikov
- Subjects
Physics::General Physics ,Particle physics ,Standard Model ,Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,Dark-Matter ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Dark matter ,01 natural sciences ,Baryon asymmetry ,De Sitter universe ,0103 physical sciences ,Non-Conservation ,010306 general physics ,media_common ,Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Finite-Temperature ,Baryogenesis ,Search ,Heavy Neutrinos ,Mass ,Universe ,Antimatter ,Baryon number ,Electroweak Phase-Transition ,Neutrino ,Model Cp-Violation - Abstract
Our Universe is charge-asymmetric: it contains no antimatter in amounts comparable to matter. This fact provides cosmological evidence for the nonconservation of baryon number as well as for C and CP breaking. We review the problem of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe and the ideas proposed for its solution motivated by the discoveries in neutrino physics.
- Published
- 2009