Dirac mass matrix textures and the lightest right-handed neutrino mass scale in Type I seesaw leptogenesis

Abstract

The type I seesaw mechanism is one of the leading proposed explanations for how neutrinos acquire their tiny masses. However, the mass scale of the undiscovered right-handed neutrinos required by this mechanism remains undetermined. Assuming vanilla leptogenesis in the two-flavor regime, we work backwards to find the required general textures of the Dirac mass matrix from which we determine the mass of the lightest right-handed neutrino to be around $10^9\mathrm{GeV}$ to $10^{12}\mathrm{GeV}$.

12 pages, no figure. Accepted for publication in International Journal of Modern Physics A