Gravitational Waves-Tomography of Low-Scale-Leptogenesis

Abstract

A long-lived scalar field ($\Phi$) which couples weakly to the right-handed (RH) neutrinos ($N_{Ri}$), generates small RH neutrino masses ($M_i$) in Low-Scale-Leptogenesis (LSL) mechanisms, despite having a large vacuum expectation value $v_{\Phi }$. In this case, the correlation shared by the $M_i$s and the duration of the non-standard cosmic history driven by the $\Phi$ provides an excellent opportunity to study LSL signatures on primordial gravitational waves (GWs). We find it engaging, specifically for the gravitational waves that originate due to the inflationary blue-tilted tensor power spectrum and propagate through the non-standard cosmic epoch. Depending on $M_i$, broadly, the scenario has two significant consequences. First, if LSL is at play, GWs with a sizeable blue tilt do not contradict the Big-Bang-Nucleosynthesis (BBN) bound even for the post-inflationary models with very high-scale reheating. Second, it opens up a possibility to probe LSLs via a low-frequency and a complementary high-frequency measurement of GW-spectral shapes which are typically double-peaked. For a case study, we consider the recent results on GWs from the Pulsar-Timing-Arrays (PTAs) as a `measurement' at the low frequencies and forecast the signatures of LSL mechanisms at the higher frequencies.

arXiv comment23 pages, 9 figures, LIGO bound on SGWB updated. Matches the JHEP version

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