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In this talk we present a mechanism for leptogenesis which is based on gravity waves produced during inflation. We show that when inflation is driven by a pseudo-scalar field the metric perturbations generated during inflation can become…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-18 S. H. Alexander , M. Peskin , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari

Reheating is essential for transforming the cold, vacuum dominated Universe at the end of inflation into the hot thermal bath required by the Standard Model. In many well motivated inflationary models, however, the inflaton has no direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Aarav Shah , Kanabar Jay , Maxim Khlopov , Oem Trivedi , Maxim Krasnov

In this work we make the observation that the gravitational leptogenesis mechanism can be implemented without invoking new axial couplings in the inflaton sector. We show that in the perturbed Robertson-Walker background emerging after…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 Antonio L. Maroto , Alfredo D. Miravet

A scenario of leptogenesis was introduced in [1] which works during inflationary period within standard model of particle physics setup. In this scenario lepton number is created by the gravitational chiral anomaly which has a non-zero…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-21 Azadeh Maleknejad , Mahdiyar Noorbala , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari

We consider a model of baryogenesis based on adding lepton number-violating quadratic mass terms to the inflaton potential of a non-minimally coupled inflation model. The $L$-violating mass terms generate a lepton asymmetry in a complex…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-12 Kit Lloyd-Stubbs , John McDonald

We present a scenario of nonthermal leptogenesis following supersymmetric hybrid inflation, in the case where inflaton decay to both heavy right handed neutrino and SU(2)_L triplet superfields is kinematically disallowed. Lepton asymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas Dent , George Lazarides , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

We examine recent claims for a considerable amount of leptogenesis, in some inflationary scenarios, through the gravitational anomaly in the lepton number current. We find that when the short distances contributions are properly included…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Fischler , S. Paban

A decade ago, the first leptogenesis model based on inflation was proposed, where the complex phase of the inflaton field carries lepton number. If the inflaton field is an axion, it can couple to gravitational waves and gauge fields via.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Stephon H. S. Alexander

We study a minimal scenario to realize non-thermal leptogenesis and UV freeze-in of a Standard Model (SM) gauge singlet fermionic dark matter (DM) simultaneously, with inflaton field playing a non-trivial role in their yields. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 Basabendu Barman , Debasish Borah , Rishav Roshan

We discuss an unique possibility of generating adiabatic density perturbations and leptogenesis from the spatial fluctuations of the inflaton decay rate. The key assumption is that the initial isocurvature perturbations are created in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Anupam Mazumdar

Connecting inflation with neutrino physics through non-thermal leptogenesis via direct inflaton-right-handed neutrino (RHN) coupling naturally incorporates neutrino reheating, leaving no ambiguity regarding the early history of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-10 Xinyi Zhang

We revisit the gravitational leptogenesis scenario in which the inflaton is coupled to gravity by the Chern-Simons term and the lepton asymmetry is generated through the gravitational anomaly in the lepton number current during inflation.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-05 Kohei Kamada , Jun'ya Kume , Yusuke Yamada , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Models of leptogenesis are constrained by the low reheat temperature at the end of reheating associated with the gravitino bound. However a detailed view of reheating, in which the maximum temperature during reheating, $\Tmax$, can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Raghavan Rangarajan , Narendra Sahu

We present a model with minimal assumptions for non-thermal leptogenesis with almost degenerate superheavy right-handed neutrinos in a supersymmetric set up. In this scenario a gauge singlet inflaton is directly coupled to the right-handed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Anupam Mazumdar

We investigate the leptogenesis via decays of heavy Majorana neutrinos which are produced non-thermally in inflaton decays. We make a comprehensive study on the leptogenesis assuming various supersymmetric (SUSY) models for hybrid, new and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 T. Asaka , K. Hamaguchi , M. Kawasaki , T. Yanagida

We consider the non-equilibrium evolution of the inflaton field coupled to both lighter scalars and fermions. The dissipational dynamics of this field is studied and found to be quite different than that believed in inflationary models. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 D. Boyanovsky , M. D'Attanasio , H. J. de Vega , R. Holman , D. S. -Lee , A. Singh

We point out that the inflaton inevitably couples to all non-conformally coupled matters gravitationally through an oscillation in the Hubble parameter or the cosmic scale factor. It leads to particle production during the inflaton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-02 Yohei Ema , Ryusuke Jinno , Kyohei Mukaida , Kazunori Nakayama

We present a new mechanism for baryogenesis: at preheating after inflation fermions acquire a varying mass by their coupling to a time dependent field. Their CP-violating mass matrix can generate a charge asymmetry to be transformed into a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Bjorn Garbrecht , Tomislav Prokopec , Michael G. Schmidt

We study cosmological evolution after inflation in models with non-minimal derivative coupling to gravity. The background dynamics is solved and particle production associated with rapidly oscillating Hubble parameter is studied in detail.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-14 Yohei Ema , Ryusuke Jinno , Kyohei Mukaida , Kazunori Nakayama

Recently, it has been shown that the presence of a non-instantaneous era of reheating can significantly alter the charged lepton(s) equilibration temperature(s) which plays important role in flavor leptogenesis. In this work, we extend the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-17 Arghyajit Datta , Rishav Roshan , Arunansu Sil