Leptogenesis from split fermions
Description
We present a new type of leptogenesis mechanism based on a two-scalar split-fermions framework. At high temperatures the bulk scalar vacuum expectation values (VEVs) vanish and lepton number is strongly violated. Below some temperature, Tc, the scalars develop extra dimension dependent VEVs. This transition is assumed to proceed via a first order phase transition. In the broken phase the fermions are localized and lepton number violation is negligible. The lepton-bulk scalar Yukawa couplings contain sizable CP phases which induce lepton production near the interface between the two phases. We provide a qualitative estimation of the resultant baryon asymmetry which agrees with current observation. The neutrino flavor parameters are accounted for by the above model with an additional approximate U(1) symmetry
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Available from INIS in electronic form; Also available from OSTI as DE00842746; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/842746-EUoirF/native/
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 4 p.
- Report number
- LBNL--54272
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 36105242
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ASYMMETRY; BARYONS; DIMENSIONS; EXPECTATION VALUE; FERMIONS; LEPTON NUMBER; NEUTRINOS; SCALARS; SYMMETRY; U-1 GROUPS
- Descriptors DEC
- ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; HADRONS; LEPTONS; LIE GROUPS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; SYMMETRY GROUPS; U GROUPS
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- AC--03-76SF00098
- Notes
- Submitted to Journal of High Energy Physics: Volume 2, No.68; Journal Publication Date: 02/2005
- Funding organization
- USDOE Director. Office of Science. Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics. Division of High Energy Physics (United States); Weizmann Institute of Science. Koshland Postdoctoral Fellowship (United States)