Resonant enhancement in leptogenesis

Author:

Dev P. S. B.1,Garny M.2,Klaric J.2,Millington P.3,Teresi D.4

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics and McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA

2. Physik Department T31, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Straße 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany

3. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK

4. Service de Physique Théorique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Boulevard du Triomphe, CP225, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

Vanilla leptogenesis within the type I seesaw framework requires the mass scale of the right-handed neutrinos to be above [Formula: see text] GeV. This lower bound can be avoided if at least two of the sterile states are almost mass degenerate, which leads to an enhancement of the decay asymmetry. Leptogenesis models that can be tested in current and upcoming experiments often rely on this resonant enhancement, and a systematic and consistent description is therefore necessary for phenomenological applications. In this paper, we give an overview of different methods that have been used to study the saturation of the resonant enhancement when the mass difference becomes comparable to the characteristic width of the Majorana neutrinos. In this limit, coherent flavor transitions start to play a decisive role, and off-diagonal correlations in flavor space have to be taken into account. We compare various formalisms that have been used to describe the resonant regime and discuss under which circumstances the resonant enhancement can be captured by simplified expressions for the CP asymmetry. Finally, we briefly review some of the phenomenological aspects of resonant leptogenesis.

Publisher

World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

Subject

Astronomy and Astrophysics,Nuclear and High Energy Physics,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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