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Effects of Reheating on Charged Lepton Yukawa Equilibration and Leptogenesis

  • 1. Department of Physics, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
  • 2. Center for Precision Neutrino Research, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea
  • 3. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
  • 4. Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam 781039, India

Description

We show that the process of noninstantaneous reheating during the postinflationary period can have a sizable impact on the charged lepton Yukawa equilibration temperature in the early Universe. This suggests reviewing the effects of lepton flavors in the leptogenesis scenario where the production and decay of right-handed neutrinos take place within this prolonged era of reheating. We find this observation has the potential to shift the flavor regime(s) of leptogenesis compared to the standard thermal scenario.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.061802;
arXiv
arXiv:2206.10650;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100003725; 10.13039/501100002531; 10.13039/501100001843; 10.13039/501100012099; 10.13039/501100000271;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
132
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
7 pgs.
ISSN
0031-9007

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
2022R1A5A1030700; CRG/2021/005080; CRG/2021/005080; MTR/2021/000774; ST/T000775/1
Notes
Contact Email: arghyad053@gmail.com; Contact Email: rishav.roshan@gmail.com; Contact Email: asil@iitg.ac.in; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
National Research Foundation of Korea; Kyungpook National University; Science and Engineering Research Board; Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati; Science and Technology Facilities Council