A bound on neutrino masses from baryogenesis

Preprint

25 September 2002

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/0209301

Abstract

Properties of neutrinos, the lightest of all elementary particles, may be the origin of the entire matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe. This requires that neutrinos are Majorana particles, which are equal to their antiparticles, and that their masses are sufficiently small. Leptogenesis, the theory explaining the cosmic matter-antimatter asymmetry, predicts that all neutrino masses are smaller than 0.2 eV, which will be tested by forthcoming laboratory experiments and by cosmology.

Keywords

BARYOGENESIS PROPERTIES
ANTIMATTER ASYMMETRY
MATTER ANTIMATTER
NEUTRINO MASSES
PROPERTIES
PARTICLES
NEUTRINOS
ASYMMETRY

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Published version: Physics Letters B, 547 (3-4), 128.

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