Stephon Alexander (Stanford)
Baryogenesis from Inflationary Gravity Waves: An Observational Constraint on the String Scale


We show that all three Sakharov conditions as well as the correct baryon to entropy ratio are consistently satisfied during the inflationary epoch. The presence of quantized birefringent inflationary gravitational waves violate CP and B-L simultaneously, while inflation provides the sufficient out of equilibrium condition. We derive a relation between n/s and the gravitational power spectrum. In addition, we show that this mechanism enjoys a model independent embedding in Heterotic String Theory as well as an intriguiging connection to the Green-Schwarz mechanism. Finally, we derive the consistency relations for inflation including the tensor to scalar ratio and the running of the spectral index. We show that there is a CMB correction (albeit small) purely in terms of the string length and coupling.



7 December 2004, ISCAP Seminar Room Pupin 908, 2:00 pm