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.
- Precise · changed · core
- 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
Decisions
- Accept · 2026-10-15 · record