Flavoured leptogenesis in the CTP formalism

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DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2010.10.001zbMATH Open1207.83074arXiv1007.4783OpenAlexW2093801815MaRDI QIDQ632037FDOQ632037


Authors: M. Beneke, Björn Garbrecht, Christian Fidler, Matti Herranen, Pedro Schwaller Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 14 March 2011

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

Abstract: Within the Closed Time Path (CTP) framework, we derive kinetic equations for particle distribution functions that describe leptogenesis in the presence of several lepton flavours. These flavours have different Standard-Model Yukawa couplings, which induce flavour-sensitive scattering processes and thermal dispersion relations. Kinetic equilibrium, which is rapidly established and maintained via gauge interactions, allows to simplify these equations to kinetic equations for the matrix of lepton charge densities. In performing this simplification, we notice that the rapid flavour-blind gauge interactions damp the flavour oscillations of the leptons. Leptogenesis turns out to be in the parametric regime where the flavour oscillations are overdamped and flavour decoherence is mainly induced by flavour sensitive scatterings. We solve the kinetic equations for the lepton number densities numerically and show that they interpolate between the unflavoured and the fully flavoured regimes within the intermediate parametric region, where neither of these limits is applicable.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4783




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