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Gravitational Leptogenesis

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We introduce a dimension five CP violating coupling between the Ricci scalar and fermions. This operator splits the energy level between neutrinos and anti-neutrinos and can generate a lepton-asymmetry in the the radiation era if heavy Majorana neutrinos decouple at the GUT scale. This operator can also generate a lepton asymmetry during warm inflation if the light neutrinos have a Majorana mass m_\nu \simeq 0.25 eV which is observable in double beta decay experiments.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0611905,
  title  = {Gravitational Leptogenesis},
  author = {Gaetano Lambiase and Subhendra Mohanty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0611905},
  year   = {2008}
}

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