Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-09-15
Phys.Lett.B671:462-469,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
18 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physletb.2008.12.054
It is well-known that thermal leptogenesis through the decays of the lightest right-handed neutrinos encounters serious difficulties when SO(10)-inspired mass conditions are imposed on the Dirac neutrino mass matrix and light neutrino masses are generated through the type I see-saw mechanism. We show that these can be circumvented when the production from the next-to-lightest right-handed neutrinos and flavor effects are properly taken into account. Some conditions on the low energy parameters have to be satisfied in order for inverse processes involving the lightest right-handed neutrino not to wash-out the asymmetry. In particular we find m_1 \gtrsim 0.001 eV, where m_1 is the mass of the lightest left-handed neutrino and that non-vanishing values of the mixing angle theta_13 are preferred in the case of a normal fully hierarchical spectrum of light neutrinos.
Bari Pasquale Di
Riotto Antonio
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