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Inflationary Gravitational Leptogenesis

We consider the generation of the baryon asymmetry in models with right-handed neutrinos produced through gravitational scattering of the inflaton during reheating. The right-handed neutrinos later decay and generate a lepton asymmetry, which is partially converted to a baryon asymmetry by Standard...

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Autores principales: Co, Raymond T., Mambrini, Yann, Olive, Keith A.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.075006
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2808716
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Sumario:We consider the generation of the baryon asymmetry in models with right-handed neutrinos produced through gravitational scattering of the inflaton during reheating. The right-handed neutrinos later decay and generate a lepton asymmetry, which is partially converted to a baryon asymmetry by Standard Model sphaleron processes. We find that a sufficient asymmetry can be generated for a wide range of right-handed neutrino masses and reheating temperatures. We also show that the same type of gravitational scattering produces Standard Model Higgs bosons, which can achieve inflationary reheating consistent with the production of a baryon asymmetry.