K-essential Leptogenesis
Abstract
K-essence is a possible candidate for dark energy of the Universe. In this paper we consider couplings of k-essence to the matter fields of the standard electroweak theory and study the effects of the cosmological CPT violation induced by the CPT violating {\bf Ether} during the evolution of the k-essence scalar field on the laboratory experiments and baryogenesis. Our results show that the matter and antimatter asymmetry can be naturally explained {\it via} leptogenesis without conflicting with the experimental limits on CPT violation test. The mechanism for baryogenesis proposed in this paper provides a unified picture for dark energy and baryon matter of our Universe and allows an almost degenerate neutrino mass pattern with a predicted rate on the neutrinoless double beta decays accessible to the experimental sensitivity in the near future.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0209093,
title = {K-essential Leptogenesis},
author = {Mingzhe Li and Xinmin Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0209093},
year = {2015}
}
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6 pages, 1 figure. To appear in Phys. Lett. B