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Momentum creation by vortices in superfluid 3He as a model of primordial baryogenesis

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  • T. D. C. Bevan

    (University of Manchester)

  • A. J. Manninen

    (University of Manchester
    University of Jyväskylä)

  • J. B. Cook

    (University of Manchester)

  • J. R. Hook

    (University of Manchester)

  • H. E. Hall

    (University of Manchester)

  • T. Vachaspati

    (Case Western Reserve University)

  • G. E. Volovik

    (Helsinki University of Technology
    Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Abstract

The Universe contains much more matter than antimatter, which is probably the result of processes in the early Universe in which baryon number was not conserved. These processes may have occurred during the electroweak phase transition, when elementary particles first acquired mass1–4. It is impossible to study directly processes relevant to the early Universe, because of the extreme energies involved. One is therefore forced to investigate laboratory systems with analogous phase transitions. Much of the behaviour of superfluid 3He is analogous to that predicted within the standard model of the electroweak interaction5. Superfluids and liquid crystals have already been used to investigate cosmic string production6–11; here we describe experiments on 3He that demonstrate the creation of excitation momentum (which we call momentogenesis) by quantized vortices in the superfluid. The underlying physics of this process is similar to that associated with the creation of baryons within cosmic strings, and our results provide quantitative support for this type of baryogenesis.

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  • T. D. C. Bevan & A. J. Manninen & J. B. Cook & J. R. Hook & H. E. Hall & T. Vachaspati & G. E. Volovik, 1997. "Momentum creation by vortices in superfluid 3He as a model of primordial baryogenesis," Nature, Nature, vol. 386(6626), pages 689-692, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:386:y:1997:i:6626:d:10.1038_386689a0
    DOI: 10.1038/386689a0
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