Chiral Magnetic Effect induced Spectator Process for Leptogenesis

TL;DR

This paper explores how the chiral magnetic effect in a general U(1) gauge field influences leptogenesis, revealing a new spectator process that can generate the baryon asymmetry without initial conditions.

Contribution

It introduces a novel leptogenesis mechanism involving CME-induced spectator processes that do not require initial baryon or lepton asymmetries.

Findings

CME explicitly breaks total lepton number in certain frameworks

Spectator processes can wash out pre-existing lepton asymmetries

BAU can be generated without primordial helicity or initial B-L charge

Abstract

Conventional Leptogenesis mechanism, which provides compelling explanation to the origin of the baryon asymmetry of the universe (BAU), assumes the absence of hypermagnetic field in the early universe, thereby disregard the implications of hyper gauge field helicity, that have been thoroughly studied in the magnetogenesis mechanism. In this paper, we address impacts of a general U(1) gauge field on Leptogenesis by deriving equation of motions for the helicity and the energy density of a general magnetic field, to which the chiral magnetic effect (CME) is identified as essential, and studying their effects on the evolution chiral asymmetries. Notably, CME in the $U(1)_{\mathbf{L}_i-\mathbf{L}_j}$ framework, where $\mathbf{L}_{i,j}$ means specific lepton flavor, explicitly breaks the total lepton number and provides an efficient spectator process, that can wash out pre-existing lepton asymmetries. This establishes a natural connection to the wash-in Leptogenesis paradigm. We demonstrate that this spectator effect enables the generation of the BAU, eliminating the need for both an initial $\mathbf{B}-\mathbf{L}$ charge and primordial helicity.