Transport equations for chiral fermions to order \hbar and electroweak baryogenesis: Part I

By T. Prokopec, M. Schmidt, S. Weinstock. 2003

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This is the first in a series of two papers. We use the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism to derive semiclassical Boltzmann transport equations for massive chiral fermions and scalar particles. Our considerations include complex mass terms and mixing fermion and scalar fields, such that CP-violation is naturally included, rendering the equations particularly suitable for studies of baryogenesis at a first order electroweak phase transition. In part II we discuss the collision terms.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• Baryogenesis from the weak scale to the grand unification scale (2020, methodology): “Because of the chiral 12 The force was computed using the WKB approximation to the Dirac equation (Kainulainen et al., 2002; Fromme and Huber, 2007) and from quantum field theory using Kadanoff-Baym equations (Kainulainen et al., 2002; Prokopec et al., 2004).”