Decrypting $SO(10)$-inspired leptogenesis

Abstract

Encouraged by the recent results from neutrino oscillation experiments, we perform an analytical study of $SO(10)$-inspired models and leptogenesis with hierarchical right-handed (RH) neutrino spectrum. Under the approximation of negligible misalignment between the neutrino Yukawa basis and the charged lepton basis, we find an analytical expression for the final asymmetry directly in terms of the low energy neutrino parameters that fully reproduces previous numerical results. This expression also shows that is possible to identify an effective leptogenesis phase for these models. When we also impose the wash-out of a large pre-existing asymmetry $N_{B-L}^{\mathrm{p},\mathrm{i}}$, the strong thermal (ST) condition, we derive analytically all those constraints on the low energy neutrino parameters that characterise the {\rm ST}-$SO(10)$-inspired leptogenesis solution, confirming previous numerical results. In particular we show why, though neutrino masses have to be necessarily normally ordered, the solution implies an analytical lower bound on the effective neutrino-less double beta decay neutrino mass, $m_{ee}\gtrsim 8\mathrm{meV}$, for $N_{B-L}^{\mathrm{p},\mathrm{i}}=10^{-3}$, testable with next generation experiments. This, in combination with an upper bound on the atmospheric mixing angle, necessarily in the first octant, forces the lightest neutrino mass within a narrow range $m_1\simeq (10$-$30)\mathrm{meV}$ (corresponding to ${\sum }_i{m}_i\simeq (75$-$125)\mathrm{meV}$). We also show why the solution could correctly predict a non-vanishing reactor neutrino mixing angle and requires the Dirac phase to be in the fourth quadrant, implying $\sin \delta$ (and $J_{CP}$) negative as hinted by current global analyses. Many of the analytical results presented (expressions for the orthogonal matrix, RH neutrino mixing matrix, masses and phases) can have applications beyond leptogenesis.

46 pages, 10 figures; v2: Ref.'s added, typos corrected; v3: added fig. 10, matches version to appear in NPB

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