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Kinetic Equations for Baryogenesis via Sterile Neutrino Oscillation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-03 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We investigate baryogenesis in the ν\nuMSM (neutrino Minimal Standard Model), which is the MSM extended by three right-handed neutrinos with masses below the electroweak scale. The baryon asymmetry of the universe can be generated by the mechanism via flavor oscillation of right-handed (sterile) neutrinos which are responsible to masses of active neutrinos confirmed by various experiments. We present the kinetic equations for the matrix of densities of leptons which describe the generation of asymmetries. Especially, the momentum dependence of the matrix of densities is taken into account. By solving these equations numerically, it is found that the momentum distribution is significantly distorted from the equilibrium one, since the production for the modes with lower momenta kTk \ll T (TT is the temperature of the universe) is enhanced, while suppressed for higher modes. As a result, the most important mode for the yields of sterile neutrinos as well as the baryon asymmetry is k2Tk \simeq 2 T, which is smaller than < k > inferred from the thermal average. The comparison with the previous works is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1112.5565,
  title  = {Kinetic Equations for Baryogenesis via Sterile Neutrino Oscillation},
  author = {Takehiko Asaka and Shintaro Eijima and Hiroyuki Ishida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.5565},
  year   = {2015}
}

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22 pages, 19 figures