Realistic neutrinogenesis with radiative vertex correction
Creators
- 1. Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, 34014 Trieste (Italy)
- 2. Center for High Energy Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 (China)
- 3. Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380009 (India)
Description
We propose a new model for naturally realizing light Dirac neutrinos and explaining the baryon asymmetry of the universe through neutrinogenesis. To achieve these, we present a minimal construction which extends the Standard Model with a real singlet scalar, a heavy singlet Dirac fermion and a heavy doublet scalar besides three right-handed neutrinos, respecting lepton number conservation and a Z2 symmetry. The neutrinos acquire small Dirac masses due to the suppression of weak scale over a heavy mass scale. As a key feature of our construction, once the heavy Dirac fermion and doublet scalar go out of equilibrium, their decays induce the CP asymmetry from the interference of tree-level processes with the radiative vertex corrections (rather than the self-energy corrections). Although there is no lepton number violation, an equal and opposite amount of CP asymmetry is generated in the left-handed and the right-handed neutrinos. The left-handed lepton asymmetry would then be converted to the baryon asymmetry in the presence of the sphalerons, while the right-handed lepton asymmetry remains unaffected
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2007.11.061Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2007.11.061;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0709.1019v2;
- PII
- S0370-2693(07)01411-6;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters. Section B
- Journal Volume
- 659
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 634-639
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBAJ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39080811
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ASYMMETRY; BARYONS; CORRECTIONS; CP INVARIANCE; INTERFERENCE; LEPTON NUMBER; NEUTRINOS; REST MASS; SCALARS; SELF-ENERGY; STANDARD MODEL; SYMMETRY; UNIVERSE
- Descriptors DEC
- ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; HADRONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LEPTONS; MASS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.