Observable Neutron-Anti-Neutron Oscillation, Baryogenesis and High Scale Seesaw
Abstract
Seesaw mechanism has been a dominant paradigm in the discussion of neutrino masses. I discuss how this idea can be tested via a baryon number violating process such as oscillation. Since the expected seesaw scale is high and the amplitude goes like , one might think that this process is not observable in realistic seesaw models for neutrino masses. In this talk I show that in supersymmetric models, the above conclusion is circumvented leading to an enhanced and observable rate for oscillation. I also discuss a new mechanism for baryogenesis in generic models for neutron-anti-neutron oscillation and show how the requirement of adequate baryogenesis can put an upper limit on the neutron-anti-neutron oscillation time.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0605289,
title = {Observable Neutron-Anti-Neutron Oscillation, Baryogenesis and High Scale Seesaw},
author = {R. N. Mohapatra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0605289},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
10 pages; 3 figures; Invited Plenary talk at the WHEPP9 symposium in Bhubaneswar, India; January, 2006