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Assessing Perturbativity and Vacuum Stability in High-Scale Leptogenesis

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-01-11 v2

Abstract

We consider the requirements that all coupling constants remain perturbative and the electroweak vacuum metastable up to the Planck scale in high-scale thermal leptogenesis, in the context of a type-I seesaw mechanism. We find a large region of the model parameter space that satisfies these conditions in combination with producing the baryon asymmetry of the Universe. We demonstrate these conditions require Tr[YNYN]0.66{\rm Tr}[Y_N^\dagger Y_N] \lesssim 0.66 on the neutrino Yukawa matrix. We also investigate this scenario in the presence of a large number NFN_F of coloured Majorana octet fermions in order to make quantum chromodynamics asymptotically safe in the ultraviolet.

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@article{arxiv.1806.00460,
  title  = {Assessing Perturbativity and Vacuum Stability in High-Scale Leptogenesis},
  author = {Seyda Ipek and Alexis D. Plascencia and Jessica Turner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.00460},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

24 pages, 5 figures. v2: Analysis extended up to M_N=10^15 GeV. Minor changes in the text, references added, version accepted for publication in JHEP

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