Cosmological Baryogenesis in Superstring Models with Stable Protons

We discuss cosmological baryogenesis in phenomenological low-energy models inspired by the superstring which have an unobservably long baryon lifetime. The Affleck-Dine mechanism of baryogenesis in a cold (≲104GeV) universe is shown to be feasible, with a large baryon density being produced by the decays of large expectation values for squark and slepton fields after inflation. We catalogue the gauge-invariant quartic scalar operators in the low-energy effective action which could appear once supersymmetry is broken, show that the D-terms in the potential can vanish, and discuss the possibility that the F-terms have flat directions allowing large values for these scalar fields.