Leptogenesis via collisions: leaking lepton number to the hidden sector.
Leptogenesis via collisions: leaking lepton number to the hidden sector.
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.87.231304
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发表时间:
2001-07
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
L. Bento;Z. Berezhiani
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作者:
L. Bento;Z. Berezhiani
We propose a leptobaryogenesis mechanism in which the nonzero B-L of the Universe is produced in out-of-equilibrium, lepton number and CP-violating scattering processes that convert ordinary particles into particles of some hidden sector. In particular, we consider the processes l phi-->l(')phi('),l macro(')phi(') mediated by the heavy Majorana neutrinos N of the seesaw mechanism, where l and phi are ordinary lepton and Higgs doublets and l('), phi(') are their hidden counterparts. Such a leptogenesis mechanism is effective even if the reheat temperature is much smaller than the heavy neutrino masses. In particular, it can be as low as 10(9) GeV.