Effects of reheating on leptogenesis

Autor: Hahn-Woernle, F., Plumacher, M.
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Nucl.Phys.B806:68-83,2009
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.07.032
Popis: We study the evolution of a cosmological baryon asymmetry in leptogenesis when the right-handed neutrinos are produced in inflaton decays. By performing a detailed numerical study over a broad range of inflaton-neutrino couplings we show that the resulting asymmetry can be larger by two orders of magnitude or more than in thermal leptogenesis, if the reheating temperature T_{RH} is of the same order as the right-handed neutrino mass M_1. Hence, the lower limit on the baryogenesis temperature obtained in thermal leptogenesis can be relaxed accordingly.
Databáze: arXiv