English

The Interplay Between the "Low" and "High" Energy CP-Violation in Leptogenesis

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-07-22 v2

Abstract

We analyse within the "flavoured" leptogenesis scenario of baryon asymmetry generation, the interplay of the "low energy" CP-violation, originating from the PMNS neutrino mixing matrix UU, and the "high energy" CP-violation which can be present in the matrix of neutrino Yukawa couplings, λ\lambda, and can manifest itself only in "high" energy scale processes. The type I see-saw model with three heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos having hierarchical spectrum is considered. The "orthogonal" parametrisation of the matrix of neutrino Yukawa couplings, which involves a complex orthogonal matrix RR, is employed. In this approach the matrix RR is the source of "high energy" CP-violation. Results for normal hierarchical (NH) and inverted hierarchical (IH) light neutrino mass spectrum are derived in the case of decoupling of the heaviest RH Majorana neutrino. It is shown that taking into account the contribution to YBY_B due to the CP-violating phases in the neutrino mixing matrix UU can change drastically the predictions for YBY_B, obtained assuming only "high energy" CP-violation from the RR-matrix is operative in leptogenesis. In the case of IH spectrum, in particular, there exist significant regions in the corresponding parameter space where the purely "high energy" contribution in YBY_B plays a subdominant role in the production of baryon asymmetry compatible with the observations.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.0803.4120,
  title  = {The Interplay Between the "Low" and "High" Energy CP-Violation in Leptogenesis},
  author = {E. Molinaro and S. T. Petcov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.4120},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Results unchanged; comments and references added; version to be puplished in Eur.Phys.J.C

R2 v1 2026-06-21T10:25:22.361Z