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Leptogenesis from Quantum Interference in a Thermal Bath

Marco Drewes

Thermal leptogenesis explains the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe in terms of neutrino masses, consistent with neutrino oscillation experiments. We present a full quantum mechanical calculation of the generated lepton asymmetry based o ...

2010

Neutrino Mass Seesaw at the Weak Scale, the Baryon Asymmetry, and the LHC

Steve Blanchet

We consider theories where the Standard Model (SM) neutrinos acquire masses through the seesaw mechanism at the weak scale. We show that in such a scenario, the requirement that any pre-existing baryon asymmetry, regardless of its origin, not be washed out ...

2009

Non-unitary Leptonic Mixing and Leptogenesis

Steve Blanchet

We investigate the relation between non-unitarity of the leptonic mixing matrix and leptogenesis. We discuss how all parameters of the canonical type-I seesaw mechanism can, in principle, be reconstructed from the neutrino mass matrix and the deviation of ...

2009

Reconciling leptogenesis with observable μ → eγ rates

Steve Blanchet

We perform a detailed analysis of thermal leptogenesis in the framework of seesaw models which approximately conserve lepton number. These models are known to allow for large Yukawa couplings and a low seesaw scale in agreement with neutrino mass constrain ...

2009

Phenomenology of 10(32) dark sectors

Michele Redi

We postulate an exact permutation symmetry acting on 10(32) standard model copies as the largest possible symmetry extension of the standard model. This setup automatically lowers the fundamental gravity cutoff down to TeV, and thus, accounts for the quant ...

2009

Leptogenesis with an almost conserved lepton number

Steve Blanchet

Seesaw models with a slightly broken lepton number symmetry can explain small neutrino masses, and allow for low-scale leptogenesis. We make a thorough analysis of leptogenesis within the simplest model with two right-handed (RH) neutrinos (or with N_3 dec ...

2008

A New Era of Leptogenesis

Steve Blanchet

This thesis is devoted to some forefront issues in the field of leptogenesis. After reviewing the simplest picture where flavor effects are neglected and only the lightest right-handed neutrino contributes to the generation of asymmetry, we discuss in deta ...

Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich / Technical University Munich2008

The nuMSM, leptonic asymmetries, and properties of singlet fermions

We study in detail the mechanism of baryon and lepton asymmetry generation in the framework of the νMSM (an extension of the Standard Model by three singlet fermions with masses smaller than the electroweak scale). We elucidate the issue of CP-violation in ...

2008

Measurement of the moments of the photon energy spectrum in B→Xsγ decays and determination of |Vcb| and mb at Belle

Olivier Schneider, Chao Wang, Tagir Aushev, Vladislav Balagura, Jing Li

Using the previous Belle measurement of the inclusive photon energy in B→Xsγ decays, we determine the first and second moments of this spectrum for minimum photon energies in the B meson rest frame ranging from 1.8 to 2.3 GeV. Combining these measurements ...

2008

A possible symmetry of the nuMSM

To explain the dark matter and the baryon asymmetry of the Universe, the parameters of the ν MSM (an extension of the Minimal Standard Model by three singlet neutrinos with masses smaller than the electroweak scale) must be fine-tuned: one of the masses sh ...

2007