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Flavour Covariant Formalism for Resonant Leptogenesis

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-06-02 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We present a fully flavour-covariant formalism for transport phenomena and apply it to study the flavour-dynamics of Resonant Leptogenesis (RL). We show that this formalism provides a complete and unified description of RL, consistently accounting for three distinct physical phenomena: (i) resonant mixing and (ii) coherent oscillations between different heavy-neutrino flavours, as well as (iii) quantum decoherence effects in the charged-lepton sector. We describe the necessary emergence of higher-rank tensors in flavour space, arising from the unitarity cuts of partial self-energies. Finally, within a Resonant τ\tau-Genesis model, we illustrate the importance of this formalism by showing that the final lepton asymmetry can vary by as much as an order of magnitude between partially flavour-dependent treatments, which do not capture all of the pertinent flavour effects.

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@article{arxiv.1409.8263,
  title  = {Flavour Covariant Formalism for Resonant Leptogenesis},
  author = {P. S. Bhupal Dev and Peter Millington and Apostolos Pilaftsis and Daniele Teresi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.8263},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

7 pages, 2 figures; numerical example revised; Contribution to the Proceedings of the ICHEP 2014, Valencia, Spain