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Testing Leptogenesis from Observable Gravitational Waves

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-04-11 v1

Abstract

Leptogenesis provides an elegant mechanism to explain the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe (BAU), yet its experimental verification remains challenging due to requirements of either extremely heavy right-handed neutrinos or precisely fine-tuned mass splittings. We adapt a solution by introducing an extra scalar field that significantly enhances CPCP asymmetry through loop-level contributions. This scalar extension not only facilitates successful leptogenesis but also enables a strong first-order electroweak phase transition, generating potentially observable gravitational waves (GWs). We demonstrate a strong correlation between the generated BAU and the GW signal strength, establishing a unique way to test the leptogenesis. We show that when the model achieves a successful BAU, the resulting GW signal from EWPT can have signal-to-noise ratio of O(103)\mathcal{O}(10^3) and O(106)\mathcal{O}(10^6) at the upcoming LISA and DECIGO experiments, respectively. This work presents a concrete connection between successful leptogenesis and detectable GWs, offering a promising method for experimental testing of the leptogenesis mechanism through future GW observations.

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@article{arxiv.2504.07819,
  title  = {Testing Leptogenesis from Observable Gravitational Waves},
  author = {Wei Liu and Yongcheng Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.07819},
  year   = {2025}
}

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5 pages+refs, 4 figures

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