Transient domain walls and lepton asymmetry in the left-right symmetric model

Abstract

It is shown that the dynamics of domain walls in left-right symmetric models, separating respective regions of unbroken SU(2)(L) and SU(2)(R) in the early universe, can give rise to baryogenesis via leptogenesis. Neutrinos have a spatially varying complex mass matrix due to CP-violating scalar condensates in the domain wall. The motion of the wall through the plasma generates a flux of lepton number across the wall which is converted to a lepton asymmetry by helicity-flipping scatterings. Subsequent processing of the lepton excess by sphalerons results in the observed baryon asymmetry, for a range of parameters in left-right symmetric models.