Probing flavored regimes of leptogenesis with gravitational waves from cosmic strings
Abstract
Cosmic strings radiate detectable gravitational waves in models featuring high-scale symmetry breaking, e.g., high-scale leptogenesis. In this Letter, for the first time, we show that different flavored regimes of high-scale leptogenesis can be tested with the spectral features in cosmic string-radiated gravitational waves. This is possible if the scalar field that makes right-handed neutrinos massive is feebly coupled to the Standard Model Higgs. Each flavored regime, sensitive to low-energy neutrino experiments, leaves a marked imprint on the gravitational waves spectrum. A three-flavor and a two-flavor regime could be probed by a characteristic fall-off of the gravitational wave spectrum at the LISA-DECIGO-ET frequency bands with preceding scale-invariant amplitudes bounded from above and below. We present Gravitational Waves windows for Flavored Regimes of Leptogenesis (GWFRL) testable in the upcoming experiments. We also provide the first construction of a leptogenesis framework where a testable distinction of flavor regimes is possible without constraining the flavor structure of the theory.
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@article{arxiv.2406.01231,
title = {Probing flavored regimes of leptogenesis with gravitational waves from cosmic strings},
author = {Marco Chianese and Satyabrata Datta and Gennaro Miele and Rome Samanta and Ninetta Saviano},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.01231},
year = {2025}
}
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6 pages, 3 figures, plus supplemental material. v2: version published in PRD Letter