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How to avoid unnatural hierarchical thermal leptogenesis

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-09-25 v1

Abstract

A one-flavour naturalness argument suggests that the Type I seesaw model cannot naturally explain neutrino masses and the baryon asymmetry of the Universe via hierarchical thermal leptogenesis. We prove that there is no way to avoid this conclusion in a minimal three-flavour setup. We then comment on the simplest ways out. In particular, we focus on a resolution utilising a second Higgs doublet. Such models predict an automatically SM-like Higgs boson, (maximally) TeV-scale scalar states, and low- to intermediate-scale hierarchical leptogenesis with 103 GeVMN1107 GeV10^3\text{ GeV}\lesssim M_{N_1}\lesssim 10^7\text{ GeV}.

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@article{arxiv.1509.07242,
  title  = {How to avoid unnatural hierarchical thermal leptogenesis},
  author = {Jackson D. Clarke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.07242},
  year   = {2015}
}

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10 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Proceedings of the 18th International Conference From the Planck Scale to the Electroweak Scale (2015)