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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

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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)