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arxiv: 2404.19197 · v3 · pith:HHFC56BHnew · submitted 2024-04-30 · ✦ hep-ph · hep-ex· nucl-ex· nucl-th

Does the Electron EDM Preclude Electroweak Baryogenesis ?

Yuan-Zhen Li , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Jiang-Hao Yu This is my paper

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New quantum transport developments relax electron EDM constraints on electroweak baryogenesis.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper illustrates in one model how CP-violating sources computed to first order in gradients within EWBG quantum transport equations produce weaker bounds from the electron electric dipole moment than earlier approximations. This change enlarges the parameter space in which the mechanism can generate the observed baryon asymmetry of the universe. The same framework also permits a more complete accounting of CP-conserving interactions whose strength can decide whether the asymmetry reaches the measured value. Readers would care because electroweak baryogenesis offers a testable route to explain why the universe contains more matter than antimatter.

Core claim

In a specific model, new developments in EWBG quantum transport theory that include CP-violating sources first order in gradients imply more relaxed EDM constraints and thereby greater EWBG viability than implied by previous approximation formulations. These developments also enable a more realistic treatment of CP-conserving interactions that can have a decisive impact on the predicted BAU.

What carries the argument

CP-violating sources first order in gradients inside the quantum transport equations during the electroweak phase transition.

If this is right

  • Successful EWBG becomes possible in a larger region of parameter space that respects current electron EDM limits.
  • CP-conserving interactions can shift the predicted baryon asymmetry by an amount large enough to decide success or failure.
  • Earlier transport approximations systematically overestimated the tension between EDM data and viable baryogenesis.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same first-order sources could loosen constraints from other EDMs such as the neutron in related models.
  • Future collider or gravitational-wave searches for the phase transition might be prioritized over further EDM tightening.
  • Testing the gradient expansion in additional benchmark models would map where the relaxation holds.

Load-bearing premise

The first-order gradient expansion for CP-violating sources remains accurate and dominant in the chosen model during the electroweak phase transition.

What would settle it

A full numerical solution of the transport equations that includes higher-order gradient terms and shows they reverse the relaxation of the EDM bound would falsify the claim of greater viability.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2404.19197 by Jiang-Hao Yu, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf, Yuan-Zhen Li.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: shows the resulting VR and VIA profiles nL(z) as a function of the distance normal to the bubble wall. The pronounced structure near z = 0 reflects the varia￾tion in the bubble profiles near the wall center and the corresponding impact on the CPV sources involving u·Σ entering the RHS of Eqs. (2a,2b). Importantly, the VR diffusion tail (z < 0) is significantly enhanced as com￾pared to the VIA result. As th… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3. Constraints on the CPV phase [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2. The obtained BAU [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. Leading-order graphs contributing to the self-energy terms in the Boltzmann equations, corresponding to (a) thermal [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_4.png] view at source ↗
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Electroweak baryogenesis (EWBG) constitutes a theoretically compelling and experimentally testable mechanism for explaining the origin of the baryon asymmetry of the universe (BAU). New results for the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the electron place significant constraints on the beyond Standard Model CP-violation needed for successful EWBG. Using a specific model illustration, we show how new developments in EWBG quantum transport theory that include CP-violating sources first order in gradients imply more relaxed EDM constraints -- and thereby greater EWBG viability -- than implied by previous approximation formulations. We also illustrate how these developments enable a more realistic treatment of CP-conserving interactions that can also have a decisive impact on the predicted BAU.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript argues that recent advances in quantum transport theory for electroweak baryogenesis (EWBG), specifically the inclusion of CP-violating sources at first order in gradients, lead to substantially relaxed constraints from the electron electric dipole moment (EDM) compared to earlier approximations. This is illustrated with a specific beyond-Standard-Model example, and the work also emphasizes the decisive role of a more realistic treatment of CP-conserving interactions in determining the predicted baryon asymmetry of the universe (BAU).

Significance. If the central claim holds, the result would meaningfully reopen parameter space for CP-violating extensions that can generate the observed BAU via EWBG, reducing the apparent tension with current and future EDM bounds. The emphasis on first-order gradient sources and improved CP-conserving transport constitutes a concrete technical advance that could alter quantitative assessments of EWBG viability in the literature.

major comments (1)
  1. [model illustration (abstract)] Abstract and model illustration: The headline claim that first-order gradient CP-violating sources relax the electron EDM bound rests on these sources dominating the BAU calculation. No explicit check is provided that the gradient expansion parameter (set by wall thickness, velocity, and mass gradients) remains ≪1 throughout the relevant bubble-wall profile and parameter region, nor is a comparison to O(gradient²) contributions reported. Without this, the quantitative relaxation of the EDM constraint cannot be established.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful reading of the manuscript and for highlighting an important point regarding the validity of the gradient expansion. We address the major comment below.

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  1. Referee: Abstract and model illustration: The headline claim that first-order gradient CP-violating sources relax the electron EDM bound rests on these sources dominating the BAU calculation. No explicit check is provided that the gradient expansion parameter (set by wall thickness, velocity, and mass gradients) remains ≪1 throughout the relevant bubble-wall profile and parameter region, nor is a comparison to O(gradient²) contributions reported. Without this, the quantitative relaxation of the EDM constraint cannot be established.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit verification of the gradient expansion validity would strengthen the manuscript. In the revised version we will add a dedicated paragraph (with supporting figure or table) evaluating the gradient expansion parameter for the benchmark points in our model illustration, confirming that it remains ≪1 across the bubble-wall profiles considered. A direct numerical comparison to O(gradient²) terms lies outside the present scope, as it would require a separate computational framework; however, the first-order sources constitute the leading CP-violating contribution within the gradient expansion employed by the transport equations, and our results are presented under the standard assumptions of that framework. We believe these additions will substantiate the reported relaxation of the EDM bounds. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation relies on independent transport calculation

full rationale

The paper's central result is obtained by applying an updated quantum transport formalism (first-order gradient CP-violating sources) to a concrete model and recomputing the baryon asymmetry and EDM bounds. No step reduces a claimed prediction to a fitted parameter, self-defined quantity, or load-bearing self-citation whose validity is presupposed by the present work. The argument is self-contained once the transport equations are accepted; the model illustration does not rename or tautologically reproduce its inputs.

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  • domain assumption The first-order gradient expansion accurately captures the dominant CP-violating sources during the electroweak phase transition
    Invoked when claiming the new transport terms relax EDM bounds

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