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<mark>Journal publication date</mark> | 30/09/1999 |
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<mark>Journal</mark> | Physics Letters B |
Issue number | 2-4 |
Volume | 463 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Pages (from-to) | 225-229 |
Publication Status | Published |
<mark>Original language</mark> | English |
It has been observed that a large lepton asymmetry, n(L)/s approximate to 0.1, can prevent the Higgs expectation value from going to zero at high temperature, resulting in the non-restoration of the SU(2) x U(1) gauge symmetry and other symmetries. This could allow for the elimination of domain walls and other dangerous topological defects. Here we show that if the reheating temperature after inflation, T-R is sufficiently low then symmetry non-restoration will occur with an asymmetry of the order of the observed baryon asymmetry, n(B)/s approximate to 10(-10). For this to occur T-R less than or similar to 1 GeV is necessary. Remarkably, this happens to be the reheating temperature expected in Affleck-Dine baryogenesis along a d = 6 flat direction of the MSSM. As an example, we show that this can neatly solve the Z(3), domain wall problem of the NMSSM.