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TeV scale resonant leptogenesis from supersymmetry breaking

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We propose a model of TeV-scale resonant leptogenesis based upon recent models of the generation of light neutrino masses from supersymmetry-breaking effects with TeV-scale right-handed (rhd) neutrinos, NiN_i. The model leads to naturally large cosmological lepton asymmetries via the resonant behaviour of the one-loop self-energy contribution to NiN_i decay. Our model addresses the primary problems of previous phenomenological studies of low-energy leptogenesis: a rational for TeV-scale rhd neutrinos with small Yukawa couplings so that the out-of equilibrium condition for NiN_i decay is satisfied; the origin of the tiny, but non-zero mass splitting required between at least two NiN_i masses; and the necessary non-trivial breaking of flavour symmetries in the rhd neutrino sector. The low mass-scale of the rhd neutrinos and their superpartners, and the TeV-scale AA-terms automatically contained within the model offer opportunities for partial direct experimental tests of this leptogenesis mechanism at future colliders.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0403183,
  title  = {TeV scale resonant leptogenesis from supersymmetry breaking},
  author = {Thomas Hambye and John March-Russell and Stephen M. West},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0403183},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 Pages latex, version for JHEP

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