Violation of CPT Invariance in the Early Universe and Leptogenesis/Baryogenesis

Abstract

In this talk, I review some plausible scenarios entailing violation of CPT symmetry in the early Universe, due to space-time backgrounds which do not respect some of the assumptions for the validity of the CPT theorem (here considered will be Lorentz invariance and/or Unitarity). The key point in all these models is that the background induces different populations of fermions as compared to antifermions, and hence CPT Violation (CPTV), already in thermal equilibrium. Such populations may freeze out at various conditions depending on the details of the underlying microscopic model, thereby leading to leptogenesis and baryogenesis. Among the considered scenarios is a stringy one, in which the CPTV is associated with a cosmological background with torsion provided by the Kalb-Ramond antisymmetric tensor field (axion) of the string gravitational multiplet. We also discuss briefly (Lorentz Violating) CPTV models that go beyond the local effective lagrangian framework, such as a stochastic Finsler metric and D-particle foam. In the latter, the CPTV is induced by the interactions of stringy matter with populations of stochastically fluctuating point-like space-time defects (D-particles) that can be encountered in string/brane Cosmologies. The preferential rôle of neutrinos is singled out in this latter scenario as a consequence of gauge symmetry (charge) conservation.