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Cosmological Sign of Neutrino CP Violation
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 16 Aug 2002 · 7 references
Pith's verdict: The sign correlation is real and checkable within each texture, but the paper's claim that the two textures are distinguishable by low-energy data is asserted rather than shown.
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The paper
The paper claims
The sign of neutrino CP violation may tell us why the universe is made of matter rather than antimatter.
The reading
What carries the argument
The machinery is a see-saw model with two right-handed neutrinos $N_1, N_2$ and a Dirac mass matrix whose upper-right and lower-left entries vanish, which yields a light-neutrino mass matrix with a zero in the 1-3 entry. Diagonalising it gives $m_3$ around $2b^2/M_2$ near $0.05$ eV and $m_2$ around $2a^2/M_1$ near $7$ MeV, with a small mixing angle $U_{e3}$ around $m_2/(2m_3)$. The high-energy CP parameter is $Y^2 a^2 b^2 (hh^2 + 2Y^2)}$, while the low-energy invariant is $Y^2 a^2 b^2 (hh^2 + 2Y^2)}$; both carry the same phase $2$ and opposite signs, so measuring one sign fixes the other. If the argument holds, a terrestrial experiment that measures the sign of CP violation in neutrino oscillations would tell us the sign of the cosmological baryon number without any cosmological input beyond the observed fact that it is positive.
Extended reading notes
Core claim
The central claim is a sign correlation. Leptogenesis in this model proceeds through the decay of the lighter right-handed neutrino $N_1$, and the resulting baryon number is $B$ proportional to $Y^2 a^2 b^2 (hh^2 + 2Y^2)}$; both quantities carry the same phase $2$ and opposite signs, so measuring one sign fixes the other. If the argument holds, a terrestrial experiment that measures the sign of CP violation in neutrino oscillations would tell us the sign of the cosmological baryon number without any cosmological input beyond the observed fact that it is positive.
Load-bearing premise
The argument rests on a Dirac mass matrix with two entries set to zero by hand, justified only by an unspecified global symmetry, and the paper's own alternative texture shows that changing those zeros reverses the sign of the low-energy CP invariant.
Editorial extensions
If this is right
- A neutrino oscillation experiment that fixes the sign of the CP-violating invariant would, on this model, fix the sign of the cosmological baryon asymmetry.
- The model selects $N_1$ decay as the source of the asymmetry, keeping the reheating temperature near $10^{10}$ GeV and avoiding the gravitino overproduction problem that a $10^{12}$ GeV $N_2$ decay would create.
- The same texture predicts a neutrinoless double beta decay rate corresponding to an effective Majorana mass $\hat{L}_{ee} \simeq 3 \times 10^{-3}$ eV.
- The correlation survives a change of texture, such as the alternative Dirac matrix of Eq (14), provided low-energy phenomenology is used to tell the two textures apart.
Reading between the lines
- Because the sign flips with the texture, a measurement of the oscillation sign would also discriminate between the two Dirac textures the paper considers, turning a cosmological question into a low-energy one.
- If the correlation holds, any future detection of a nonzero CP phase in neutrino oscillations with a definite sign becomes a statement about the early universe, not just about mixing angles.
- The unspecified global symmetry behind the texture zeros is the natural place to look for a reason the two signs are locked together; a model that realises it would make the correlation a prediction rather than a choice.
Original abstract
It is shown how, in a class of models, the sign of the baryon number of the universe can be related to CP violation in neutrino oscillation experiments.
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It is shown how, in a class of models, the sign of the baryon number of the universe can be related to CP violation in neutrino oscillation experiments.
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| s0 | It is shown how, in a class of models, the sign of the baryon number of the universe can be related to CP violation in neutrino oscillation experiments. | contribution 0.79 | 0.84 | 0.82 | asserted 1.00 |
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112 arXiv papers cite this in 151 sentences
Papers whose main result relates to this one's
States the same result 1 paper
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It is shown how, in a class of models, the sign of the baryon number of the universe can be related to CP violation in neutrino oscillation experiments.
Connecting Link Between Leptogenesis and Oscillations · 1.00
Papers citing it · 114 sentences without a confident label
Uses its method or tool 1 paper
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In this paper, we analyze conditions of $CP$ symmetry for the light neutrino mass matrix $m$ defining a formula by $LDL^T$ decomposition [ref] for the minimal type-I seesaw mechanism [ref] .
A formula by $LDL^{T}$ decomposition for the minimal type-I seesaw mechanism and conditions of $CP$ symmetry in an arbitrary basis · Introduction · 0.90
Compares with it 1 paper
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It is interesting to note that this orthogonal seesaw matrix is identical to the special form derived from models with $M_3 →∞$ [ref] , or analogously models with only two RH neutrinos.
Neutrino Models and Leptogenesis · $CP$ asymmetry · 0.91
Cites it as support 3 papers
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This complies with the fact that successful leptogenesis in the seesaw model does require two right-handed neutrinos, but not necessarily more [ref] (see also [ref] ).
Minimal Seesaw Model with a Discrete Heavy-Neutrino Exchange Symmetry · Introduction: Seeking the most minimal realization of the type-I seesaw model · 0.99
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This observation allows us to conclude that our scenario is compatible with the concept of leptogenesis from low-energy $CP$ violation [ref] .
Type-I Seesaw as the Common Origin of Neutrino Mass, Baryon Asymmetry, and the Electroweak Scale · Numerical parameter scan · 0.98
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Likewise, leptogenesis calls for two right-handed neutrinos, but not necessarily more [ref] .
Perturbed Yukawa Textures in the Minimal Seesaw Model · Intro: Possible lessons from measuring leptonic CP violation? · 0.96
Cites it as background 28 papers
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In the following we consider the TeV scale type I see-saw scenarios with two RH neutrinos discussed in [ref] .[Type I see-saw scenarios with two heavy Majorana neutrinos having masses by few to several orders of magnitude below the GUT scale of $∼2×10^16$ GeV have been discussed, e.g., in [ref] .]
Higgs Decays in the Low Scale Type I See-Saw Model · Preliminary Remarks · 0.81
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We consider the minimal seesaw model where only two copies of right-handed neutrinos are introduced [ref] .
CP violation in neutral lepton transition dipole moment · $CP$ violation in heavy neutrino radiative decays · 0.85
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The minimal seesaw model is the simplest model of the seesaw mechanism of neutrino masses, with the inclusion of two additional RHNs [ref] , which could be important contribution to the $0νββ$-decay process [ref] .
Neutrinoless double beta decay in the minimal type-I seesaw model: How the enhancement or cancellation happens? · Introduction · 0.88
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