Kinetic description of fermion flavor mixing and CP-violating sources for baryogenesis

• Published in: Nuclear physics. B 2005-06, Vol.716 (1), p.373-400
• Main Authors: Konstandin, Thomas, Prokopec, Tomislav, Schmidt, Michael G.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0550-3213; 1873-1562
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.03.013

We derive transport equations for fermionic systems with a space–time dependent mass matrix in flavor space allowing for complex elements leading to CP violation required for electroweak baryogenesis. By constructing appropriate projectors in flavor space of the relevant tree level Kadanoff–Baym equations, we split the constraint equations into “diagonal” and “transversal” parts in flavor space, and show that they decouple. While the diagonal densities exhibit standard dispersion relations at leading order in gradients, the transverse densities exhibit a novel on-shell structure. Next, the kinetic equations are considered to second order in gradients and the CP-violating source terms are isolated. This requires a thorough discussion of a flavor independent definition of charge-parity symmetry operation. To make a link with baryogenesis in the supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model, we construct the Green functions for the leading order kinetic operator and solve the kinetic equations for two mixing fermions (charginos). We take account of flavor blind damping, and consider the cases of inefficient and moderate diffusion. The resulting densities are the CP-violating chargino currents that source baryogenesis.