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New aspects of leptogenesis bounds

New aspects of leptogenesis bounds
New aspects of leptogenesis bounds
We present a general analysis that reveals new aspects of the leptogenesis bounds on neutrino masses and on the reheat temperature of the Universe. After revisiting a known effect coming from an unbounded term in the total CP asymmetry, we show that an unbounded term in the flavored CP asymmetries has a stronger impact. It relaxes the lower bound on the reheat temperature down to 108 GeV for (M2 - M1)/M1 = O (1–100) and for a mild tuning of the parameters in the see-saw orthogonal matrix. We also consider the effect of the Higgs asymmetry, showing that it lowers the upper bound on the neutrino masses in the so-called fully flavored regime where classic Boltzmann equations can be used. Imposing independence of the initial conditions contributes to lower the upper bound on neutrino masses as well. We study the conditions for the validity of the usual N1-dominated scenario and for the applicability of the lower bound on the lightest right-handed (RH) neutrino mass M1. We find that except for the two effective RH neutrino scenario, recovered for M3 >> 1014 GeV, and for values M2 < O (1011 GeV), the final asymmetry is more naturally dominated by the contribution from N2-decays. Finally, we confirm in a general way that going beyond the hierarchical limit, the effect of washout addition makes the lower bound on M1 more stringent for (M2 - M1)/M1 = O (0.1).
0550-3213
155-187
Blanchet, Steve
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Di Bari, Pasquale
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Blanchet, Steve
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Di Bari, Pasquale
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Blanchet, Steve and Di Bari, Pasquale (2009) New aspects of leptogenesis bounds. Nuclear Physics B, 807 (1-2), 155-187. (doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.08.026).

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We present a general analysis that reveals new aspects of the leptogenesis bounds on neutrino masses and on the reheat temperature of the Universe. After revisiting a known effect coming from an unbounded term in the total CP asymmetry, we show that an unbounded term in the flavored CP asymmetries has a stronger impact. It relaxes the lower bound on the reheat temperature down to 108 GeV for (M2 - M1)/M1 = O (1–100) and for a mild tuning of the parameters in the see-saw orthogonal matrix. We also consider the effect of the Higgs asymmetry, showing that it lowers the upper bound on the neutrino masses in the so-called fully flavored regime where classic Boltzmann equations can be used. Imposing independence of the initial conditions contributes to lower the upper bound on neutrino masses as well. We study the conditions for the validity of the usual N1-dominated scenario and for the applicability of the lower bound on the lightest right-handed (RH) neutrino mass M1. We find that except for the two effective RH neutrino scenario, recovered for M3 >> 1014 GeV, and for values M2 < O (1011 GeV), the final asymmetry is more naturally dominated by the contribution from N2-decays. Finally, we confirm in a general way that going beyond the hierarchical limit, the effect of washout addition makes the lower bound on M1 more stringent for (M2 - M1)/M1 = O (0.1).

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e-pub ahead of print date: 30 August 2008
Published date: 21 January 2009
Organisations: High Energy Physics

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Local EPrints ID: 152707
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/152707
ISSN: 0550-3213
PURE UUID: 05f81334-ca92-4d10-8bc8-c73362e71de5

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Date deposited: 17 May 2010 08:20
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