Flavour covariant transport equations: an application to resonant leptogenesis

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2014.06.020zbMATH Open1325.81181arXiv1404.1003OpenAlexW2017179877MaRDI QIDQ894713FDOQ894713

Authors: P. S. Bhupal Dev, Peter Millington, Apostolos Pilaftsis, D. Teresi 

Publication date: 23 November 2015

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

Abstract: We present a fully flavour-covariant formalism for transport phenomena, by deriving Markovian master equations that describe the time-evolution of particle number densities in a statistical ensemble with arbitrary flavour content. As an application of this general formalism, we study flavour effects in a scenario of resonant leptogenesis (RL) and obtain the flavour-covariant evolution equations for heavy-neutrino and lepton number densities. This provides a complete and unified description of RL, capturing three distinct physical phenomena: (i) the resonant mixing between the heavy-neutrino states, (ii) coherent oscillations between different heavy-neutrino flavours, and (iii) quantum decoherence effects in the charged-lepton sector. To illustrate the importance of this formalism, we numerically solve the flavour-covariant rate equations for a minimal RL model and show that the total lepton asymmetry can be enhanced by up to one order of magnitude, as compared to that obtained from flavour-diagonal or partially flavour off-diagonal rate equations. Thus, the viable RL model parameter space is enlarged, thereby enhancing further the prospects of probing a common origin of neutrino masses and the baryon asymmetry in the Universe at the LHC, as well as in low-energy experiments searching for lepton flavour and number violation. The key new ingredients in our flavour-covariant formalism are rank-4 rate tensors, which are required for the consistency of our flavour-mixing treatment, as shown by an explicit calculation of the relevant transition amplitudes by generalizing the optical theorem. We also provide a geometric and physical interpretation of the heavy-neutrino degeneracy limits in the minimal RL scenario. Finally, we comment on the consistency of various suggested forms for the heavy-neutrino self-energy regulator in the lepton-number conserving limit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1003

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boltzmann equations (35Q20) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

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