6–11 Dec 2010
CNR headquarter
Europe/Rome timezone

Axial charge segregation during a first order phase transition in the presence of hypermagnetic fields

7 Dec 2010, 15:15
25m
Sala Conferenze, 2nd floor (CNR headquarter)

Sala Conferenze, 2nd floor

CNR headquarter

Piazzale Aldo Moro, 7 00185 Roma
T, C, P, CP symmetries, Accidental symmetries (B, L conservation) Cosmology and astroparticles, dark matter (1)

Speaker

Dr Gabriella Piccinelli (Centro tecnologico, FES Aragón, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Description

We study the scattering of fermions off a finite width bubble wall during the electroweak phase transition in the presence of a background hypermagnetic field. We show that the chiral nature of the fermion coupling with the background field in the symmetric phase generates an axial asymmetry in the scattering processes. We discuss possible implications of such axial charge segregation for baryon number generation.

Primary author

Dr Gabriella Piccinelli (Centro tecnologico, FES Aragón, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Presentation materials