Electroweak baryon number violation

Abstract

Electroweak baryon number violation may play a crucial role for the creation of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the early universe. In this talk, we review the basic mechanism, which relies on the behavior of chiral fermions in nontrivial Yang-Mills gauge field backgrounds.

Comments: Invited talk at the XIV-th Rencontre de Blois: Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry, June 2002; 6 pages