An Overview of the Sources for Electroweak Baryogenesis

Abstract

After a short review of electroweak scale baryogenesis, we consider the dynamics of chiral fermions coupled to a complex scalar field through the standard Yukawa interaction term at a strongly first order electroweak phase transition. By performing a systematic gradient expansion we can use this simple model to study electroweak scale baryogenesis. We show that the dominant sources for electroweak baryogenesis appear at linear order in the Planck constant h-bar. We provide explicit expressions for the sources both in the flow term and in the collision term of the relevant kinetic Boltzmann equation. Finally, we indicate how the kinetic equation sources appear in the fluid transport equations used for baryogenesis calculations.