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arxiv: 1409.8263 · v2 · submitted 2014-09-29 · ✦ hep-ph · astro-ph.CO

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Flavour Covariant Formalism for Resonant Leptogenesis

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We present a fully flavour-covariant formalism for transport phenomena and apply it to study the flavour-dynamics of Resonant Leptogenesis (RL). We show that this formalism provides a complete and unified description of RL, consistently accounting for three distinct physical phenomena: (i) resonant mixing and (ii) coherent oscillations between different heavy-neutrino flavours, as well as (iii) quantum decoherence effects in the charged-lepton sector. We describe the necessary emergence of higher-rank tensors in flavour space, arising from the unitarity cuts of partial self-energies. Finally, within a Resonant $\tau$-Genesis model, we illustrate the importance of this formalism by showing that the final lepton asymmetry can vary by as much as an order of magnitude between partially flavour-dependent treatments, which do not capture all of the pertinent flavour effects.

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