Leptogenesis by curvature coupling of heavy neutrinos
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2011-08-08 v1
Abstract
We introduce a CP violating coupling between the Ricci curvature and the heavy right handed neutrinos. This splits the Majorana masses of the left and the right handed heavy neutrinos. When the heavy neutrinos decay, their decay rates are different into left and right chirality light neutrinos. A time varying non-zero Ricci curvature can give rise to a net lepton asymmetry. The source of a non-zero curvature in a radiation era is the quantum fluctations of primordial fields.
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@article{arxiv.1107.1213,
title = {Leptogenesis by curvature coupling of heavy neutrinos},
author = {Gaetano Lambiase and Subhendra Mohanty},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.1213},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
13 pages. Accepted for publication in PRD