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