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Fabrication of Spatially Confined Complex Oxides
Published on: July 1, 2013
Early Cosmological Period of QCD Confinement
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-4575, USA.
Abstract:
If the strong coupling is promoted to a dynamical field-dependent quantity, it is possible that the strong force looked very different in the early Universe. We consider a scenario in which the dynamics is such that QCD confines at high temperatures with a large dynamical scale, relaxing back to ∼1 GeV before big bang nucleosynthesis. We discuss the cosmological implications and explore potential applications, including fleshing out a new mechanism for baryogenesis which opens up if QCD confines before the electroweak phase transition of the standard model.
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