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Probing leptogenesis at future colliders

Antusch, Stefan; Cazzato, Eros; Drewes, Marco; Fischer, Oliver 1; Garbrecht, Björn; Gueter, Dario; Klarić, Juraj
1 Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

We investigate the question whether leptogenesis, as a mechanism for explaining the baryon asymmetry of the universe, can be tested at future colliders. Focusing on the minimal scenario of two right-handed neutrinos, we identify the allowed parameter space for successful leptogenesis in the heavy neutrino mass range between 5 and 50 GeV. Our calculation includes the lepton flavour violating contribution from heavy neutrino oscillations as well as the lepton number violating contribution from Higgs decays to the baryon asymmetry of the universe. We confront this parameter space region with the discovery potential for heavy neutrinos at future lepton colliders, which can be very sensitive in this mass range via displaced vertex searches. Beyond the discovery of heavy neutrinos, we study the precision at which the flavour-dependent active-sterile mixing angles can be measured. The measurement of these mixing angles at future colliders can test whether a minimal type I seesaw mechanism is the origin of the light neutrino masses, and it can be a first step towards probing leptogenesis as the mechanism of baryogenesis. We discuss how a stronger test could be achieved with an additional measurement of the heavy neutrino mass difference.


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000086212
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2018)124
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Kernphysik (IKP)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsmonat/-jahr 09.2018
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 1029-8479
urn:nbn:de:swb:90-862120
KITopen-ID: 1000086212
HGF-Programm 51.03.06 (POF III, LK 01) Theoretische Astroteilchenphysik
Erschienen in Journal of high energy physics
Verlag Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Band 2018
Heft 9
Seiten Article: 124
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Vorab online veröffentlicht am 20.09.2018
Schlagwörter Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Neutrino Physics; Beyond Standard Model
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