violation and baryogenesis due to heavy Majorana neutrinos
- 1 November 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 56 (9) , 5431-5451
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.56.5431
Abstract
We analyze the scenario of baryogenesis through leptogenesis induced by the out-of-equilibrium decays of heavy Majorana neutrinos and pay special attention to violation. Extending a recently proposed resummation formalism for two-fermion mixing to decay amplitudes, we calculate the resonant phenomenon of violation due to the mixing of two nearly degenerate heavy Majorana neutrinos. Solving numerically the relevant Boltzmann equations, we find that the isosinglet Majorana mass may range from 1 TeV up to the grand unification scale, depending on the mechanism of violation and/or the flavor structure of the neutrino mass matrix assumed. Finite temperature effects and possible constraints from the electric dipole moment of electron and other low-energy experiments are briefly discussed.
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