Leptonic CP Violation and Leptogenesis
Abstract
The phenomenology of 3-neutrino mixing, the current status of our knowledge about the 3-neutrino mixing parameters, including the absolute neutrino mass scale, and of the Dirac and Majorana CP violation in the lepton sector, are reviewed. The problems of CP violation in neutrino oscillations and of determining the nature - Dirac or Majorana - of massive neutrinos, are discussed. The seesaw mechanism of neutrino mass generation and the related leptogenesis scenario of generation of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe, are considered. The results showing that the CP violation necessary for the generation of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe in leptogenesis can be due exclusively to the Dirac and/or Majorana CP-violating phase(s) in the neutrino mixing matrix , are briefly reviewed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1405.2263,
title = {Leptonic CP Violation and Leptogenesis},
author = {S. T. Petcov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.2263},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
23 pages, 5 figures; Proceedings of the Conference in Honor of the 90th Birthday of Freeman Dyson, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 26-29 August 2013 (Eds. K.K. Phua et al., World Scientific, 2014), p. 179; typos in the published version corrected