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Flavoured CP asymmetries for type II seesaw leptogenesis

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-12-11 v3

Abstract

A novel contribution to the leptonic CP asymmetries in type II seesaw leptogenesis scenarios is obtained for the cases in which flavor effects are relevant for the dynamics of leptogenesis. In the so-called flavoured leptogenesis regime, the interference between the tree-level amplitude of the scalar triplet decaying into two leptons and the one-loop wave-function correction with leptons in the loop, leads to a new nonvanishing CP asymmetry contribution. The latter conserves total lepton number but violates lepton flavour. Cases in which this novel contribution may be dominant in the generation of the baryon asymmetry are briefly discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1301.0288,
  title  = {Flavoured CP asymmetries for type II seesaw leptogenesis},
  author = {R. Gonzalez Felipe and F. R. Joaquim and H. Serodio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.0288},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

12 pages, 3 figures; typos corrected, comments added, matches published version