Leptonic CP asymmetry and Light flavored scalar

Abe, Yoshihiko; Ito, Toshimasa; Yoshioka, Koichi

doi:10.48550/arxiv.2110.11096

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“…After acquiring a non-zero vacuum expectation value (VEV), heavy masses could be generated by those VEVs as, e.g., in Majoron models [66][67][68]. The existence of new scalar degrees of freedom coupled to heavy Majorana neutrinos induce new contributions to the CP asymmetries relevant for the generation of a lepton asymmetry in leptogenesis scenarios [69][70][71][72][73][74].…”

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Scalar-singlet assisted leptogenesis with CP violation from the vacuum

Barreiros

Câmara

Felipe

et al. 2023

J. High Energ. Phys.

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In the vanilla type-I seesaw leptogenesis scenario, CP violation required to generate the lepton asymmetries in the heavy Majorana neutrino decays stem from complex Dirac-type Yukawa couplings. In this paper we explore the case in which that CP violation originates from the vacuum expectation value of a complex scalar singlet at a very high scale. This non-trivial CP-violating phase can be successfully communicated to the low-energy neutrino sector via the heavy neutrino portal. The new scalar-singlet degrees of freedom generate new contributions to the CP asymmetries relevant for leptogenesis not only at the one-loop level but also through tree-level three-body decays. These are computed here for an arbitrary number of heavy neutrinos, Higgs doublets and scalar singlets. We also take into account the new decays and scattering processes that enter the unflavoured Boltzmann equations governing the heavy-neutrino particle densities and the (B – L)-asymmetry evolution. Having established the framework of interest, we present a simple model with two RH neutrinos, two Higgs doublets and a complex scalar singlet, supplemented with a Ƶ8 flavour symmetry. This symmetry minimises the number of free parameters without compromising the possibility of spontaneous CP violation and compatibility with neutrino data. In fact, the only viable Ƶ8 charge assignment shows a preference for a non-trivial spontaneous CP-violating phase, which in turn leads to a non-vanishing CP asymmetry due to the direct link between high- and low-energy CP violation. An interesting feature of this simple setup is that the usual wave and vertex type-I seesaw contributions to the CP asymmetry vanish due to the Ƶ8 symmetry. Thus, the observed baryon-to-photon ratio can be explained thanks to the new couplings among the heavy neutrinos and the new scalar degrees of freedom.

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