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Warped Leptogenesis with Dirac Neutrino Masses

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We show how leptogenesis can occur at the TeV scale with neutrinos that possess almost purely Dirac masses and negligible Majorana mass contributions as a consequence of the small wavefunction overlap in a warped fifth dimension. Lepton number violation at the Planck scale is introduced via a Majorana mass term on the Planck brane. Such a Majorana mass operator leads to the small mass splitting of otherwise degenerate Kaluza-Klein excited states on the TeV brane. This tiny mass splitting can compensate for the small Yukawa couplings to give a CP asymmetry large enough to produce the sufficient baryon asymmetry from the decay of the nearly degenerate neutrino Kaluza-Klein states. In this way the standard baryogenesis via leptogenesis scenario can naturally occur at the TeV scale without the need for a high mass scale.

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@article{arxiv.0705.1749,
  title  = {Warped Leptogenesis with Dirac Neutrino Masses},
  author = {Tony Gherghetta and Kenji Kadota and Masahide Yamaguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.1749},
  year   = {2008}
}

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