Published December 2008
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Journal article
Leptogenesis with composite neutrinos
Creators
- 1. Institute for High Energy Phenomenology, Newman Laboratory of Elementary Particle Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 (United States)
Description
Models with composite singlet neutrinos can give small Majorana or Dirac masses to the active neutrinos. The mechanism is based on the fact that conserved chiral symmetries give massless neutrinos at the renormalizable level. Thus, they acquire very small masses due to non-renormalizable terms. We investigate such models in two aspects. First, we find UV completions for them and then we investigate the possibility of giving leptogenesis. We find that these models offer new possibilities for leptogenesis. Models with Majorana masses can exhibit standard leptogenesis. Models with Dirac masses can provide a realization of Dirac type leptogenesis with mass scale that can be as low as 10 TeV.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/12/016Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Journal Volume
- 12
- Journal Issue
- 2008
- Journal Page Range
- p. 016
- ISSN
- 1126-6708
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Italy
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 41111820
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- CHIRAL SYMMETRY; DIRAC COSMOLOGY; LEPTONS; MASS; NEUTRINOS; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; TEV RANGE
- Descriptors DEC
- COSMOLOGY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; SYMMETRY