Leptogenesis in minimal predictive seesaw models
Abstract
We estimate the Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe (BAU) arising from leptogenesis within a class of minimal predictive seesaw models involving two right-handed neutrinos and simple Yukawa structures with one texture zero. The two right-handed neutrinos are dominantly responsible for the "atmospheric" and "solar" neutrino masses with Yukawa couplings to proportional to and , respectively, where is a positive integer. The neutrino Yukawa matrix is therefore characterised by two proportionality constants with their relative phase providing a leptogenesis-PMNS link, enabling the lightest right-handed neutrino mass to be determined from neutrino data and the observed BAU. We discuss an SUSY GUT example, where vacuum alignment provides the required Yukawa structures with , while a symmetry fixes the relatives phase to be a ninth root of unity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1505.05504,
title = {Leptogenesis in minimal predictive seesaw models},
author = {Fredrik Björkeroth and Francisco J. de Anda and Ivo de Medeiros Varzielas and Stephen F. King},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.05504},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
16 pages, 2 tables. v2: minor changes, references added, version accepted in JHEP