COSMOLOGICAL BARYON-NUMBER DOMAIN-STRUCTURE FROM SYMMETRY BREAKING IN GRAND UNIFIED FIELD-THEORIES

被引:80
作者
BROWN, RW [1 ]
STECKER, FW [1 ]
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[1] NASA,GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CTR,HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYS LAB,GREENBELT,MD 20771
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.43.315
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We suggest that grand unified field theories with spontaneous symmetry breaking in the very early big bang can lead more naturally to a baryon-symmetric cosmology with a domain structure than to a totally baryon-asymmetric cosmology. The symmetry is broken in a randomized manner in causally independent domains, favoring neither a baryon nor an antibaryon excess on a universal scale. Arguments in favor of this cosmology and observational tests are discussed. © 1979 The American Physical Society.
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