23–28 Aug 2010
Bonn
Europe/Berlin timezone

Matter and Dark Matter from False Vacuum Decay

26 Aug 2010, 15:08
15m
Hörsaal I (Bonn)

Hörsaal I

Bonn

Nussallee 12

Speaker

Dr Gilles Vertongen (DESY Hamburg)

Description

We study tachyonic preheating associated with the spontaneous breaking of B-L, the difference of baryon and lepton number. Reheating occurs through the decays of heavy Majorana neutrinos which are produced during preheating and in decays of the Higgs particles of B-L breaking. Baryogenesis is an interplay of nonthermal and thermal leptogenesis, accompanied by thermally produced gravitino dark matter. The proposed mechanism simultaneously explains the generation of matter and dark matter, thereby relating the absolute neutrino mass scale to the gravitino mass.

Primary author

Dr Gilles Vertongen (DESY Hamburg)

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