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Right-handed neutrinos as the source of density perturbations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v1 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the possibility that cosmological density perturbations are generated by the inhomogeneous decay of right-handed neutrinos. This will occur if a scalar field whose fluctuations are created during inflation is coupled to the neutrino sector. Robust predictions of the model are a detectable level of non-Gaussianity and, if standard leptogenesis is the source of the baryon asymmetry, a baryon isocurvature perturbations at the level of the present experimental constraints.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0602052,
  title  = {Right-handed neutrinos as the source of density perturbations},
  author = {Lotfi Boubekeur and Paolo Creminelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0602052},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14 pages, 2 figures