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Mirror Dirac leptogenesis

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-03-24 v3

Abstract

We consider a mirror world scenario, in which light Dirac neutrinos are generated from a seesaw mechanism and leptogenesis occurs at high scale without violating lepton number. After leptogenesis, the conservation laws of the theory imply the visible baryon-minus-lepton asymmetry to be equal to the mirror baryon-minus-lepton asymmetry. We extend previous work by presenting a detailed study of this Dirac leptogenesis mechanism by constructing the full set of Boltzmann Equations for both cases of unflavored and flavored regimes. We show that Z2Z_2 breaking and lepton/mirror lepton flavor effects can be exploited to enhance the final baryon-minus-lepton asymmetry in our world by several orders of magnitude.

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@article{arxiv.1903.12192,
  title  = {Mirror Dirac leptogenesis},
  author = {Kevin Earl and Chee Sheng Fong and Thomas Gregoire and Alberto Tonero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.12192},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

24 pages, 3 figures; abstract and introduction modified, reference to an earlier work on the subject added, section and detailed discussion about flavor enhancement effects added; JCAP version

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