Which mechanism produced the cosmic baryon asymmetry? · revision history

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Title
Which mechanism produced the cosmic baryon asymmetry?
Plain
For every billion antiquarks there were about a billion and one quarks in the early universe. Something broke the matter-antimatter balance, and we do not know what.
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Revision 1: Explain $\eta_B = n_B/n_\gamma \sim 6.1e-10$ (CMB and BBN) satisfying the Sakharov conditions, given that SM CP violation and the SM crossover fail by many orders of magnitude. An answer is a mechanism (thermal or resonant leptogenesis, electroweak baryogenesis, Affleck-Dine, or others) with an independent experimental confirmation.
Revision 2: Explain $\eta_B = n_B/n_\gamma \sim 6.1 \times 10^{-10}$ (CMB and BBN) satisfying the Sakharov conditions, given that SM CP violation and the SM crossover fail by many orders of magnitude. An answer is a mechanism (thermal or resonant leptogenesis, electroweak baryogenesis, Affleck-Dine, or others) with an independent experimental confirmation.
Settled by
Laboratory confirmation of the ingredients of one mechanism, for example lepton number violation plus leptonic CP violation plus heavy neutral leptons for leptogenesis.
Kind
phenomenon
Answer type
mechanism
References
(empty)
Literature status
open
Status note
(empty)
Posed since
1967

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