#leptogenesis

Leptogenesis

Hypothetical processes that could produce the observed asymmetry favoring leptons over antileptons

In physical cosmology, leptogenesis is the generic term for hypothetical physical processes that produced an asymmetry between leptons and antileptons in the very early universe, resulting in the present-day dominance of leptons over antileptons. In the currently accepted Standard Model, lepton number is nearly conserved at temperatures below the TeV scale, but tunneling processes can change this number; at higher temperature it may change through interactions with sphalerons, particle-like entities. In both cases, the process involved is related to the weak nuclear force, and is an example of chiral anomaly.

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