Evaporating global charges in braneworld

In braneworld models the global charges, such as baryon or lepton number, are not conserved. The global-charge non-conservation is a rather model-independent feature which arises due to quantum fluctuations of the brane worldvolume. These fluctuations create "baby branes" that can capture some global charges and carry them away into the bulk of higher-dimensional space. Such processes are exponentially suppressed at low-energies, but can be significant at high enough temperatures or energies. These effects can lead to a new, intrinsically high-dimensional mechanism of baryogenesis. Baryon asymmetry might be produced due either to evaporation into the baby branes, or creation of the baryon number excess in collisions of two Brane Universes.