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Mechanisms for cosmological baryon production

Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fieldsPublished 15 November 1979
D.V. Nanopoulos, Steven Weinberg
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Abstract

General formulas are given for the mean net baryon number produced in the decay of superheavy scalar or vector bosons. These results are used to make rough numerical estimates of the cosmological baryon abundance that would result from such decay processes in the very early universe.

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Physics and Astronomy