Baryogenesis through mixing of heavy Majorana neutrinos

Flanz, Marion ; Paschos, Emmanuel A. ; Sarkar, Utpal ; Weiss, Jan (1996) Baryogenesis through mixing of heavy Majorana neutrinos Physics Letters B, 389 (4). pp. 693-699. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

A mechanism is presented in which the mixing of right-handed heavy Majorana neutrinos creates a CP-asymmetric universe. When these Majorana neutrinos subsequently decay more leptons than anti leptons are produced. Due to a resonance phenomenon the lepton asymmetry created by this new mechanism can exceed by a few orders of magnitude any lepton asymmetry originating from direct decays. The asymmetry is finally converted into a baryon asymmetry during the electroweak phase transition.

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