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Type II Seesaw Leptogenesis in a Majoron background

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-04-20 v2

Abstract

We discuss spontaneous Leptogenesis in the Type II Seesaw model of neutrino masses featuring an electroweak triplet scalar TT in a coherent pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB) background. In the "wash-in" scenario the inverse decays of Higgs bosons to TT generate a chemical potential for the triplet that is then transmitted to the lepton sector via the leptonic decays of TT. Our mechanism works with a single triplet that can be as light as 1 TeV, and has a vacuum expectation value vTv_T in the window O(1 keV)<vT<O(1 MeV)\mathcal{O}(1~\text{keV})<v_T<\mathcal{O}(1~\text{MeV}). This range of vTv_T can lead to appreciable decays of the triplet's doubly charged component into both same sign di-leptons and same sign pairs of WW-bosons, which could potentially allow for an experimental distinction from a recently proposed inflationary Type II Seesaw Affleck-Dine scenario preferring the leptonic mode. In the "singlet-doublet-triplet Majoron" UV-completion of the Type II Seesaw model, the required pNGB is automatically included in the form of the Majoron, that originates from the phase of the lepton number breaking singlet scalar. The coherent motion of the Majoron can furthermore explain the dark matter relic abundance via the kinetic misalignment mechanism. Cogenesis of dark matter and the baryon asymmetry can work for a lepton number breaking scale of O(105  GeV)<vσ<O(108 GeV)\mathcal{O}(10^5\;\text{GeV})<v_\sigma< \mathcal{O}(10^8~\text{GeV}) and a Majoron mass of O(1 eV)>mj>O(1 μeV)\mathcal{O}(1~\text{eV}) > m_j >\mathcal{O}(1~\mu\text{eV}).

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@article{arxiv.2506.23290,
  title  = {Type II Seesaw Leptogenesis in a Majoron background},
  author = {Maximilian Berbig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.23290},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

45 pages + 3 pages of appendix, 8 figures, 2 tables; Comments are always appreciated! v2: discussion extended, typos corrected, matches published version