We briefly review the main aspects of leptogenesis, describing both the unflavoured and the flavoured versions of the N2-dominated scenario. A study of the success rates of both classes of models has been carried out. We comment on these results and discuss corrective effects to this simplest scenario. Focusing on the flavoured case, we consider the conditions required by strong thermal leptogenesis, where the final asymmetry is fully independent of the initial conditions. Barring strong cancellations in the seesaw formula and in the flavoured decay parameters, we show that strong thermal leptogenesis favours a lightest neutrino mass m1 10 meV for normal ordering (NO) and m1 3 meV for inverted ordering (IO). Finally, we briefly comment on the power of absolute neutrino mass scale experiments to either support or severely corner strong thermal leptogenesis.

Neutrino parameters and the N2-dominated scenario of leptogenesis / Fiorentin, M. R.; King, S. E.. - In: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONFERENCE SERIES. - ISSN 1742-6588. - ELETTRONICO. - 598:(2015), p. 012027. (Intervento presentato al convegno 1st Prospects in Neutrino Physics Conference, NuPhys 2013 tenutosi a Institute of Physics (IoP), gbr nel 2013) [10.1088/1742-6596/598/1/012027].

Neutrino parameters and the N2-dominated scenario of leptogenesis

Fiorentin M. R.;
2015

Abstract

We briefly review the main aspects of leptogenesis, describing both the unflavoured and the flavoured versions of the N2-dominated scenario. A study of the success rates of both classes of models has been carried out. We comment on these results and discuss corrective effects to this simplest scenario. Focusing on the flavoured case, we consider the conditions required by strong thermal leptogenesis, where the final asymmetry is fully independent of the initial conditions. Barring strong cancellations in the seesaw formula and in the flavoured decay parameters, we show that strong thermal leptogenesis favours a lightest neutrino mass m1 10 meV for normal ordering (NO) and m1 3 meV for inverted ordering (IO). Finally, we briefly comment on the power of absolute neutrino mass scale experiments to either support or severely corner strong thermal leptogenesis.
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