Baryon asymmetry from primordial black holes
Abstract
We propose a new scenario of the baryogenesis from primordial black holes (PBH). Assuming presence of microscopic baryon (or lepton) number violation and a CP violating operator such as ∂α F(R.... ) Jα, where F(R....) is a scalar function of the Riemann tensor, time evolution of an evaporating black hole generates baryonic (leptonic) chemical potential at the horizon; consequently PBH enumerates asymmetric Hawking radiation between baryons (leptons) and anti-baryons (leptons). Though the operator is higher dimensional and largely suppressed by a high mass scale M*, we show that sufficient amount of asymmetry can be generated for a wide range of parameters of the PBH mass M PBH, its abundance PBH, and the scale M*.
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