CP asymmetry in heavy Majorana neutrino decays at finite temperature: the nearly degenerate case
arXiv:1511.02803 · doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2016)191
Abstract
In a model where Majorana neutrinos heavier than the electroweak scale couple to Standard Model Higgs bosons and leptons, we compute systematically thermal corrections to the direct and indirect CP asymmetries in the Majorana neutrino decays. These are key ingredients entering the equations that describe the thermodynamic evolution of the induced lepton-number asymmetry eventually leading to the baryon asymmetry in the universe. We compute the thermal corrections in an effective field theory framework that assumes the temperature smaller than the masses of the Majorana neutrinos and larger than the electroweak scale, and we provide the leading corrections in an expansion of the temperature over the mass. In this work, we consider the case of two Majorana neutrinos with nearly degenerate masses.
Equations (B.25), (B.26) and (B.27) corrected in the parts depending on the SU(2) gauge coupling; final results modified accordingly
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