Schwinger--Keldysh formulation of electromagnetic leptogenesis in an EFT framework
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| author | Takada, Rin |
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| contents | We study TeV-scale electromagnetic leptogenesis (EMLG) in an effective field theory (EFT) framework, starting from an ultraviolet (UV)-complete model in which integrating out heavy states generates the gauge-invariant dimension-six dipole operators $O_{NB}$ and $O_{NW}$. After electroweak symmetry breaking these operators induce effective dipole couplings of the right-handed neutrinos $N$ to $γ$, $Z$, and $W^{\pm}$, enabling decays, inverse decays, and scattering processes in the electroweak crossover window. Gauge invariance enforces a Higgs insertion and thus a parametric suppression of both the CP-odd source and the washout in the non-resonant, hierarchical regime, preventing reproduction of the observed baryon asymmetry. We therefore focus on the quasi-degenerate limit, in which the self-energy contribution to the CP asymmetry is resonantly enhanced and coherent flavor dynamics among the nearly degenerate $N$ becomes essential. Using the CTP/Schwinger--Keldysh formalism, we derive density-matrix quantum kinetic equations (QKEs) whose collision term, at leading order in the effective dipole couplings and SM gauge interactions, incorporates $1\leftrightarrow 2$ processes and the leading $ΔL=0$ scatterings in a unified and non-overcounted manner, without the need for real-intermediate-state (RIS) subtraction. Solving the resulting system numerically, we present a coherent EFT pipeline from UV matching and renormalization-group (RG) running to electroweak-scale effective dipole couplings, resonantly regulated CP sources, and the frozen-out baryon asymmetry. For both thermal and zero initial heavy-neutrino abundances, we find in the oscillation-motivated region that the undiluted freeze-out yield $Y_B^{\rm FO}$ can exceed $Y_B^{\rm obs}\simeq 8.7\times10^{-11}$ by several orders of magnitude. |
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| spellingShingle | Schwinger--Keldysh formulation of electromagnetic leptogenesis in an EFT framework Takada, Rin High Energy Physics - Phenomenology We study TeV-scale electromagnetic leptogenesis (EMLG) in an effective field theory (EFT) framework, starting from an ultraviolet (UV)-complete model in which integrating out heavy states generates the gauge-invariant dimension-six dipole operators $O_{NB}$ and $O_{NW}$. After electroweak symmetry breaking these operators induce effective dipole couplings of the right-handed neutrinos $N$ to $γ$, $Z$, and $W^{\pm}$, enabling decays, inverse decays, and scattering processes in the electroweak crossover window. Gauge invariance enforces a Higgs insertion and thus a parametric suppression of both the CP-odd source and the washout in the non-resonant, hierarchical regime, preventing reproduction of the observed baryon asymmetry. We therefore focus on the quasi-degenerate limit, in which the self-energy contribution to the CP asymmetry is resonantly enhanced and coherent flavor dynamics among the nearly degenerate $N$ becomes essential. Using the CTP/Schwinger--Keldysh formalism, we derive density-matrix quantum kinetic equations (QKEs) whose collision term, at leading order in the effective dipole couplings and SM gauge interactions, incorporates $1\leftrightarrow 2$ processes and the leading $ΔL=0$ scatterings in a unified and non-overcounted manner, without the need for real-intermediate-state (RIS) subtraction. Solving the resulting system numerically, we present a coherent EFT pipeline from UV matching and renormalization-group (RG) running to electroweak-scale effective dipole couplings, resonantly regulated CP sources, and the frozen-out baryon asymmetry. For both thermal and zero initial heavy-neutrino abundances, we find in the oscillation-motivated region that the undiluted freeze-out yield $Y_B^{\rm FO}$ can exceed $Y_B^{\rm obs}\simeq 8.7\times10^{-11}$ by several orders of magnitude. |
| title | Schwinger--Keldysh formulation of electromagnetic leptogenesis in an EFT framework |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01652 |