Published January 24, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Realistic neutrinogenesis with radiative vertex correction

  • 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.2007.11.061

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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

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