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Dec, 2012

Kinetic Equations for Baryogenesis via Sterile Neutrino Oscillation

JCAP
  • Asaka, Takehiko
  • ,
  • Eijima, Shintaro
  • ,
  • Ishida, Hiroyuki

Volume
02
Number
2
First page
021
Last page
021
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1088/1475-7516/2012/02/021
Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD

We investigate baryogenesis in the nu MSM (neutrino Minimal Standard Model), which is the SM extended by three right-handed neutrinos with masses below the electroweak scale. The baryon asymmetry of the universe can be generated by the mechanism via flavor oscillation of right-handed (sterile) neutrinos which are responsible to masses of active neutrinos confirmed by various experiments. We present the kinetic equations for the matrix of densities of leptons which describe the generation of asymmetries. Especially, the momentum dependence of the matrix of densities is taken into account. By solving these equations numerically, it is found that the momentum distribution is significantly distorted from the equilibrium one, since the production for the modes with lower momenta k << T (T is the temperature of the universe) is enhanced, while suppressed for higher modes. As a result, the most important mode for the yields of sterile neutrinos as well as the baryon asymmetry is k similar or equal to 2 T, which is smaller than < k > inferred from the thermal average. The comparison with the previous works is also discussed.

Link information
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2012/02/021
arXiv
http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1112.5565
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000301176000022&DestApp=WOS_CPL
URL
http://inspirehep.net/record/1082844
ID information
  • DOI : 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/02/021
  • ISSN : 1475-7516
  • ORCID - Put Code : 30487428
  • arXiv ID : arXiv:1112.5565
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000301176000022

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