Successful $N_2$ leptogenesis with flavour coupling effects in realistic unified models

Abstract

In realistic unified models involving an $SO(10)$-like pattern of Dirac and heavy right-handed (RH) neutrino masses, the lightest right-handed neutrino $N_1$ is too light to yield successful thermal leptogenesis, barring highly fine tuned solutions, while the second heaviest right-handed neutrino $N_2$ is typically in the correct mass range. We show that flavour coupling effects in the Boltzmann equations may be crucial to the success of such $N_2$ dominated leptogenesis, by helping to ensure that the flavour asymmetries produced at the $N_2$ scale survive $N_1$ washout. To illustrate these effects we focus on $N_2$ dominated leptogenesis in an existing model, the A to Z of flavour with Pati-Salam, where the neutrino Dirac mass matrix may be equal to an up-type quark mass matrix and has a particular constrained structure. The numerical results, supported by analytical insight, show that in order to achieve successful $N_2$ leptogenesis, consistent with neutrino phenomenology, requires a "flavour swap scenario" together with a less hierarchical pattern of RH neutrino masses than naively expected, at the expense of some mild fine-tuning. These results may be relevant for other $SO(10)$-like unified models where $N_2$ leptogenesis is necessary.

26 pages, 1 figure; v2: typos corrected, Ref's added; v3: matches JCAP published version

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