Baryogenesis from mixing of lepton doublets

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2012.11.021zbMATH Open1262.81233arXiv1210.0553OpenAlexW2069084938MaRDI QIDQ1950508FDOQ1950508

Authors: Björn Garbrecht 

Publication date: 13 May 2013

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is shown that the mixing of lepton doublets of the Standard Model can yield sizeable contributions to the lepton asymmetry, that is generated through the decays of right-handed neutrinos at finite temperature in the early Universe. When calculating the flavour-mixing correlations, we account for the effects of Yukawa as well as of gauge interactions. We compare the freeze-out asymmetry from lepton-doublet mixing to the standard contributions from the mixing and direct decays of right-handed neutrinos. The asymmetry from lepton mixing is considerably large when the mass ratio between the right-handed neutrinos is of order of a few, while it becomes Maxwell-suppressed for larger hierarchies. For an intermediate range between the case of degenerate right-handed neutrinos (resonant Leptogenesis) and the hierarchical case, lepton mixing can yield the main contribution to the lepton asymmetry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0553

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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