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In the context of the Big Bung model, when the Universe was about 4 seconds old

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Question

In the context of the Big Bung model, when the Universe was about 4 seconds old and the temperature had dropped to about 6 billion Kelvin, a massive annihilation e^+ + e^- rightarrow gamma gamma took place. All positrons disappeared in this process, but about 10^-9 of the electrons survived, just like 10^-9 of the protons had survived the pp annihilation that had taken place in an earlier stage. If this electron excess was entirely due to CP violation in K_L^0 decay (through the K_L^0 rightarrow pi e nu decay mode), estimate the fraction of the total number of electrons (before the annihilation took place) that originated from K_L^0 decay.

Explanation / Answer

Solution:

Given

e+ + e- -->

All positrons disappeared in this process, but about 10^-9 of the electrons survived, just like 10^-9 of the photons had survived the pp aninhilation that had taken place in earlier stage

If this electron was entitrely due to CP violation in KLo delay --> pi()*e*v decay mode

So the fraction of the total number of electrons before the annhilation took place thT ORIGINATED from KLo decay

= 2/ 10^-9+10^-9

= 2 / 2*10^-9

= 1* 10^-9

= 10^9 :1 or 10^9/1