Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2003-05-29
JHEP0309:021,2003
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
30 pages, 2 eps figures, JHEP3.cls, typos corrected, note (and references) added on non-thermal leptogenesis
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2003/09/021
In the framework of the seesaw mechanism with three heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos and no Higgs triplets we carry out a systematic study of the structure of the right-handed neutrino sector. Using the current low-energy neutrino data as an input and assuming hierarchical Dirac-type neutrino masses $m_{Di}$, we calculate the masses $M_i$ and the mixing of the heavy neutrinos. We confront the inferred properties of these neutrinos with the constraints coming from the requirement of a successful baryogenesis via leptogenesis. In the generic case the masses of the right-handed neutrinos are highly hierarchical: $M_i \propto m_{Di}^2$; the lightest mass is $M_1 \approx 10^3 - 10^6$ GeV and the generated baryon-to-photon ratio $\eta_B\lesssim 10^{-14}$ is much smaller than the observed value. We find the special cases which correspond to the level crossing points, with maximal mixing between two quasi-degenerate right-handed neutrinos. Two level crossing conditions are obtained: ${m}_{ee}\approx 0$ (1-2 crossing) and $d_{12}\approx 0$ (2-3 crossing), where ${m}_{ee}$ and $d_{12}$ are respectively the 11-entry and the 12-subdeterminant of the light neutrino mass matrix in the basis where the neutrino Yukawa couplings are diagonal. We show that sufficient lepton asymmetry can be produced only in the 1-2 crossing where $M_1 \approx M_2 \approx 10^{8}$ GeV, $M_3 \approx 10^{14}$ GeV and $(M_2 - M_1)/ M_2 \lesssim 10^{-5}$.
Akhmedov Evgeny Kh.
Frigerio Michele
Smirnov Alexei Yu.
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