GUT scale inflation, nonthermal leptogenesis, and atmospheric neutrino oscillations

Sep, 2003
19 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 582 (2004) 6-14
e-Print:
Report number:
  • BA-03-12

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
Leptogenesis scenarios in supersymmetric hybrid inflation models are considered. Sufficient lepton asymmetry leading to successfull baryogenesis can be obtained if the reheat temperature T r ≳10 6 GeV and the superpotential coupling parameter κ is in the range 10 −6 ≲ κ ≲10 −2 . For this range of κ the scalar spectral index n s ≃0.99±0.01. Constraints from neutrino mixing further restrict the range of κ that is allowed. We analyze in detail the case where the inflaton predominantly decays into the next-to-lightest right-handed Majorana neutrino taking into account especially the constraints from atmospheric neutrino oscillations.
  • inflation: hybrid
  • grand unified theory
  • lepton: production
  • neutrino: oscillation
  • neutrino: atmosphere
  • supersymmetry
  • inflaton: decay
  • neutrino: Majorana
  • neutrino: right-handed
  • numerical calculations