Gravitational Baryogenesis Constraints on Nojiri-Odintsov $f(R)$ Gravity

Abstract

This paper focuses on exploring the imbalance between matter and antimatter via the gravitational baryogenesis mechanism within the framework of Nojiri-Odintsov $f(R)$ gravity models in a spatially flat FLRW universe, where $R$ is the Ricci curvature scalar. This mechanism is based on \(\mathcal{CP}\)-violation generated via introducing an interaction between baryonic matter current (\(J^\mu\)) and the derivative of curvature scalar (\(\partial_\mu R\)), which finally results in the baryon asymmetry. We examine three distinct $f(R)$ models: (i) \(f(R)=\frac{-\alpha}{R^m}+\frac{R}{2k^2}+\beta R^2\), (ii) \(f(R)=\alpha R^{\gamma} +\beta R^{\delta}\) and (iii) \(f(R)=\frac{\alpha R^{2m}-\beta R^m}{1+\gamma R^m} \). We demonstrate that even during the matter-dominated epoch of the universe, the $f(R)$ gravity models under consideration can yield a non-vanishing matter-antimatter asymmetry. We constrain the model parameters of each model within the scenario of gravitational baryogenesis to produce the observed value of the baryon-to-entropy ratio, providing a continuous set of acceptable physical values for those parameters. Our results show highly consistent agreement to the baryon-to-entropy ratio with the observational bound from the cosmological data.