Published December 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Leptogenesis with composite neutrinos

  • 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/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/12/016

Additional details

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