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Leptogenesis from a sneutrino condensate revisited

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We re--examine leptogenesis from a right--handed sneutrino condensate, paying special attention to the BB-term associated with the see--saw Majorana mass. This term generates a lepton asymmetry in the condensate whose time average vanishes. However, a net asymmetry will result if the sneutrino lifetime is not much longer than the period of oscillations. Supersymmetry breaking by thermal effects then yields a lepton asymmetry in the standard model sector after the condensate decays. We explore different possibilities by taking account of both the low--energy and Hubble BB-terms. It will be shown that the desired baryon asymmetry of the Universe can be obtained for a wide range of Majorana mass.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0401054,
  title  = {Leptogenesis from a sneutrino condensate revisited},
  author = {Rouzbeh Allahverdi and Manuel Drees},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0401054},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

17 revtex pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Slightly modified and references added. Final version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D