Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-09-29
Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 035014
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
13 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.035014
Recent results of neutrino oscillation experiments point to a nonvanishing neutrino mass. Neutrino mass models favour Majorana-type neutrinos. In such circumstances it is natural that the supersymmetric counterpart of the neutrino, the sneutrino, bears also lepton number violating properties. On the other hand, the fact that the universe exhibits an asymmetry in the baryon and antibaryon numbers poses constraints on the extent of lepton number violation in the light sneutrino sector if the electroweak phase transition is second or weak first order. From the requirement that the Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe should not be washed out by sneutrino induced lepton number violating interactions and sphalerons below the critical temperature of the electroweak phase transition we find that the mass splitting of the light sneutrino mass states is compatible with the sneutrino Cold Dark Matter hypothesis only for heavy gauginos and opposite sign gaugino mass parameters.
Klapdor-Kleingrothaus Hans Volker
Kolb St.
Kuzmin Andrei V.
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