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Probing Leptogenesis with the Cosmological Collider

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-09-21 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Leptogenesis is generally challenging to directly test due to the very high energy scales involved. In this work we propose a new probe for leptogenesis with cosmological collider physics. With the example of a cosmological Higgs collider, we demonstrate that during inflation leptogenesis models can produce detectable primordial non-Gaussianity with distinctive oscillatory patterns that encode information about the lepton-number violating couplings, the Majorana right-hand neutrino masses, and the CP phases, which are essential to leptogenesis.

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@article{arxiv.2112.10793,
  title  = {Probing Leptogenesis with the Cosmological Collider},
  author = {Yanou Cui and Zhong-Zhi Xianyu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.10793},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Journal version, 6 pages + 3 pages of supplemental material

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