2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Study of Nonequilibrium phenomena by use of the correlation functions
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23540312
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Particle/Nuclear/Cosmic ray/Astro physics
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| Research Institution | Saga University |
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Principal Investigator |
FUNAKUBO Koichi 佐賀大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (60221553)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | バリオン数生成 / 電弱相転移 / レプトン数生成 / ボルツマン方程式 |
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| Research Abstract |
To describe states out of equilibrium in the early universe, the integrated Boltzmann equations have been used assuming the distribution functions of the particles have the same momentum-dependence as those in equilibrium. Proper treatment of nonequilibrium states is necessary to evaluate the abundances of the dark matter and baryonic matter. In the context of thermal leptogenesis, we studied the evolution of the distribution function of the heavy neutrino and calculate the lepton number asymmetry including the effects of the lepton-number-violating processes.
We also developed a method to evaluate the effective potential, which are used to study the phase transitions, with the resummation of the thermal masses, without recourse to the high-temperature expansion. We applied it to the abelian Higgs model and obtained the two-loop resumed effective potential, which indicates a weaker symmetry-breaking phase transition than the previous studies with the high-temperature expansion
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Research Products
(5 results)
