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Why is there more matter than antimatter?

Category: Physics

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The Big Bang should have produced matter and antimatter in equal amounts, which would have annihilated, leaving only radiation. Instead the observable universe is dominated by matter. The mechanism of baryogenesis is unknown.

Sakharov's three conditions (baryon number violation, C and CP violation, departure from thermal equilibrium) constrain possible mechanisms, but the Standard Model alone cannot supply enough CP violation.

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