Baryogenesis constraints on generalized mass-to-horizon entropy

TL;DR

This paper explores how a generalized entropy model affects baryogenesis, showing that slight deviations from standard entropy laws can significantly influence matter-antimatter asymmetry consistent with cosmological data.

Contribution

It introduces a modified entropy framework based on a power-law extension and demonstrates its impact on baryogenesis within cosmology.

Findings

Constraints on the entropic exponent: 0 < 1 - n ≲ 10^{-2}

Modified entropy affects the evolution of the Hubble parameter

Standard baryon asymmetry generation can occur with entropy modifications

Abstract

We investigate the generation of the baryon asymmetry within the cosmological framework based on a generalized mass-to-horizon entropy. This entropy, recently proposed as a power-law extension of the Bekenstein-Hawking area law, arises from a modified mass-horizon relation constructed to ensure consistency with the Clausius relation. By applying the gravity-thermodynamics conjecture, the resulting corrections to the Friedmann equations modify the evolution of the Hubble parameter. Consequently, even the standard supergravity coupling between the Ricci scalar and the baryon current can generate a non-vanishing matter-antimatter asymmetry. Comparison with observational data yields a stringent constraint on the entropic exponent, namely $0 < 1 - n \lesssim \mathcal{O}(10^{-2})$, at the decoupling temperature $T_D \simeq 10^{16}\,\text{GeV}$, corresponding to the current upper limit on tensor-mode fluctuations at the inflationary scale. These findings indicate that minor, subtle, yet physically significant departures, from the standard Bekenstein-Hawking entropy ($n = 1$) may be required to achieve full consistency with present cosmological observations.