Ajit M Srivastava
Articles written in Pramana – Journal of Physics
Volume 60 Issue 5 May 2003 pp 997-1000
Baryon inhomogeneities due to cosmic string wakes at the quark-hadron transition
Biswanath Layek Soma Sanyal Ajit M Srivastava
Baryon inhomogeneities generated during the quark-hadron transition may alter the abundances of light elements if they persist up to the time of nucleosynthesis. These inhomogeneities survive up to the nucleosynthesis epoch if they are separated by a distance of at least a few metres. In this work we present a model where large sheets of these inhomogeneities separated by a distance of a few km are formed by cosmic string wakes during the quark-hadron transition. The effect of these sheets on nucleosynthesis will also put constraints on the various cosmic string parameters.
Volume 61 Issue 5 November 2003 pp 1039-1043
Implications of cosmic string-induced density fluctuations at the quark-hadron transition
Biswanath Layek Soma Sanyal Ajit M Srivastava
We show that cosmic strings moving through the plasma at the time of a first-order quark-hadron transition in the early universe generate baryon inhomogeneities, which can survive till the nucleosynthesis epoch. We find out how these inhomogeneities actually affect the calculated values of the light element abundances. Recently a wealth of observational data from various experiments have helped to reduce the uncertainties in the values of these abundances. Using these we show that it is possible to derive constraints in the presence of cosmic strings during the quark-hadron transition.
Volume 62 Issue 3 March 2004 pp 761-764
Baryogenesis via density fluctuations with a second-order electroweak phase transition
Biswanath Layer Soma Sanyal Ajit M Srivastava
We consider the presence of cosmic string-induced density fluctuations in the early universe at temperatures below the electroweak phase transition temperature. Resulting temperature fluctuations can restore the electroweak symmetry locally, depending on the amplitude of fluctuations and the background temperature. The symmetry will be spontaneously broken again in a given region as the temperature drops there (for fluctuations with length scales smaller than the horizon), resulting in the production of baryon asymmetry. The time-scale of the transition will be governed by the wavelength of fluctuation and, hence, can be much smaller than the Hubble time. This leads to strong enhancement in the production of baryon asymmetry for a second-order electroweak phase transition as compared to the case when transition happens due to the cooling of the universe via expansion. For a two-Higgs doublet model (with appropriate CP violation), we show that one can get the required baryon asymmetry if fluctuations propagate without getting significantly damped. If fluctuations are damped rapidly, then a volume factor suppresses the baryon production, though it is still 3–4 orders of magnitude larger than the conventional case of second-order transition.
Volume 67 Issue 5 November 2006 pp 742-742a
Pankaj Agrawal Ajit M Srivastava
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