Constraints on leptogenesis from a symmetry viewpoint

Journal Article · Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2010 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.81.053008· OSTI ID:21409832

Gonzalez Felipe, R ^[1]; Serodio, H ^[2]

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1. Area Cientifica de Fisica, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Rua Conselheiro Emidio Navarro 1, 1959-007 Lisboa (Portugal)
2. Departamento de Fisica and Centro de Fisica Teorica de Particulas (CFTP), Instituto Superior Tecnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa (Portugal)

It is shown that type I seesaw models based on the standard model Lagrangian extended with three heavy Majorana right-handed fields do not have leptogenesis in leading order, if the symmetries of mass matrices are also the residual symmetry of the Lagrangian. In particular, flavor models that lead to a mass-independent leptonic mixing have a vanishing leptogenesis CP asymmetry. Based on symmetry arguments, we prove that in these models the Dirac-neutrino Yukawa coupling combinations relevant for leptogenesis are diagonal in the physical basis where the charged leptons and heavy Majorana neutrinos are diagonal.

• OSTI ID: 21409832
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 81, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.053008; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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