Program

P.59 -- Poster, NCTP-40

Date: Tuesday, 28 July 2015

Time: 08h30 - 10h00

Sphaleron electroweak phase transition in the economical 3-3-1 Model

Vo Quoc Phong (1), Hoang Ngoc Long (2), Vo Thanh Van (1), Tran Thi Ai Nhi (1)

(1) University of Science-Ho Chi Minh City; (2) Institute of Physics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology

We calculate the electroweak sphaleron rates in the Economical 3-3-1 (E331) model. In the context of the early Universe, this model undergoes a sequence of two first-order phase transitions, $SU(3) \rightarrow SU(2)$ at the TeV scale and $SU(2) \rightarrow U(1)$ at the 100 GeV scale, as the Universe cools down from the hot big bang. By a thin-wall approximation, we show that for each phase transition in this sequence, the sphaleron rate is larger than the cosmological expansion rate at temperatures higher than the critical temperature, and after the phase transition, the sphaleron process is decoupled. This may provide baryon-number violation (B violation) necessary for baryogenesis in the relationship with nonequilibrium physics in the early Universe.

Presenter: Vo Quoc Phong