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Is leptogenesis falsifiable at LHC?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-03-06 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

It is well known that the leptogenesis mechanism offers an attractive possibility to explain the baryon asymmetry of the universe. Its particular robustness however comes with one major difficulty: it will be very hard if not impossible to test experimentally in a foreseeable future, as most of the mechanics typically takes place at high energy or results from suppressed interactions, without unavoidable low-energy implications. An alternate approach is taken by asking: can it be at least falsified? We show that possible discoveries at current and future colliders, most notably that of right-handed gauge interactions, would indeed forbid at least the "canonical" leptogenesis mechanisms, namely those based on right-handed neutrino decay. General lower bounds for successful leptogenesis on the mass of the right-handed gauge boson W_R are given. Other possibilities to falsify leptogenesis, including from the observation of a Z', are also considered.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0806.0841,
  title  = {Is leptogenesis falsifiable at LHC?},
  author = {J. -M. Frère and T. Hambye and G. Vertongen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.0841},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

22 pages ; v3: discussion about resonant leptogenesis case added ; matches JHEP published version

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