Mass Bounds on Light and Heavy Neutrinos from Radiative MFV Leptogenesis
Abstract
We derive novel limits on the masses of the light and heavy Majorana neutrinos by requiring successful leptogenesis in seesaw models of minimal flavour violation (MFV). Taking properly into account radiative flavour effects and avoiding the limitations due to a no-go theorem on leptonic asymmetries, we find that the mass of the lightest of the observable neutrinos must be smaller than eV, whilst the Majorana scale of lepton number violation should be higher than GeV. The latter lower bound enables one to probe the existence of possible new scales of MFV, up to energies of TeV, in low-energy experiments, such as and conversion in nuclei. Possible realizations of MFV leptogenesis in Grand Unified Theories are briefly discussed.
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@article{arxiv.1506.08124,
title = {Mass Bounds on Light and Heavy Neutrinos from Radiative MFV Leptogenesis},
author = {Apostolos Pilaftsis and Daniele Teresi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.08124},
year = {2015}
}
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5 pages, 3 figures; journal version