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CP Violation and Lightest Neutrino Mass Effects in Thermal Leptogenesis

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-07-22 v1

Abstract

Effects of the lightest neutrino mass in "flavoured" leptogenesis when the CP-violation necessary for the generation of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe is due exclusively to the Dirac and/or Majorana phases in the neutrino mixing matrix UU are discussed. The type I see-saw scenario with three heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos having hierarchical spectrum is considered. The "orthogonal" parametrisation of the matrix of neutrino Yukawa couplings, which involves a complex orthogonal matrix RR, is employed. Results for light neutrino mass spectrum with normal and inverted ordering (hierarchy) are reviewed.

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@article{arxiv.0901.3524,
  title  = {CP Violation and Lightest Neutrino Mass Effects in Thermal Leptogenesis},
  author = {E. Molinaro and S. T. Petcov and T. Shindou and Y. Takanishi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.3524},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

To appear in the proceedings of DISCRETE'08, Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries, IFIC, Valencia, Spain, 11-16 December 2008