Leptogenesis from a Phase Transition in a Dynamical Vacuum

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Autori principali: Bhandari, Dipendu, Datta, Arghyajit, Sil, Arunansu
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author Bhandari, Dipendu
Datta, Arghyajit
Sil, Arunansu
author_facet Bhandari, Dipendu
Datta, Arghyajit
Sil, Arunansu
contents We show that a phase transition may take place in the early Universe at a temperature $T_*$ via a Standard Model singlet scalar field which happens to couple to right handed neutrinos (RHN) resulting a temperature dependent mass for them that finally relaxes to a constant value after electroweak phase transition (EWPT). As a result, a requisite amount of lepton asymmetry can be produced at a temperature close to $T_*$ satisfying the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe via sphaleron process even when the zero temperature masses of the RHNs fall in sub GeV regime providing a testable scenario for leptogenesis. Interestingly, the framework is also capable of predicting a primordial lepton asymmetry (generated at a temperature below the EWPT), as hinted by helium abundance measuring experiments, bearing a correlation with early phase of leptogenesis.
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spellingShingle Leptogenesis from a Phase Transition in a Dynamical Vacuum
Bhandari, Dipendu
Datta, Arghyajit
Sil, Arunansu
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
We show that a phase transition may take place in the early Universe at a temperature $T_*$ via a Standard Model singlet scalar field which happens to couple to right handed neutrinos (RHN) resulting a temperature dependent mass for them that finally relaxes to a constant value after electroweak phase transition (EWPT). As a result, a requisite amount of lepton asymmetry can be produced at a temperature close to $T_*$ satisfying the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe via sphaleron process even when the zero temperature masses of the RHNs fall in sub GeV regime providing a testable scenario for leptogenesis. Interestingly, the framework is also capable of predicting a primordial lepton asymmetry (generated at a temperature below the EWPT), as hinted by helium abundance measuring experiments, bearing a correlation with early phase of leptogenesis.
title Leptogenesis from a Phase Transition in a Dynamical Vacuum
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.13157