Matter-antimatter asymmetry in the early Universe and violation of time reversal symmetry
作者:
LewisH. Ryder,
期刊:
Contemporary Physics
(Taylor Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 35,
issue 3
页码: 151-163
ISSN:0010-7514
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1080/00107519408229110
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
After some general remarks about‘big bang’cosmology it is pointed out how, in order to explain why there is matter but no antimatter in the observed Universe, reactions involving violation of baryon number must have taken place at early times. It turns out that processes violating time reversal invariance are also necessary. The article surveys the subjects of the discrete symmetries (space inversion, time reversal and particle-antiparticle transformation) and their violation in elementary-particle physics, and grand unified theories, which predict baryon number violation. A simple model is then presented which could account qualitatively for the dominance of matter over antimatter in the Universe. It is pointed out that grand unified theories are not the only providers of a mechanism for baryon number violation; one other possibility, the sphaleron, is briefly explained.
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