Supersymmetric "Solutions" to Cosmological Problems: Baryogenesis and Dark Matter

Abstract

The possible role of supersymmetry in our understanding of big bang baryogenesis and cosmological dark matter is explored. The discussion will be limited to the out-of equilibrium decay scenario in SUSY GUTs, the decay of scalar condensates, and lepto-baryogenesis as a means for generating the observed baryon asymmetry. Attention will also be focused on neutralino dark matter.

Comments: summary of a talk given at the Joint US-Polish Workshop on Physics from Planck Scale to Electroweak Scale, Warsaw, Poland, September 21-24, 1994, Latex 13 pages uuencoded ps figures attached