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Baryon Asymmetry, Neutrino Mixing and Supersymmetric SO(10) Unification

arXiv:hep-ph/9704231 · doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00410-6

Abstract

The baryon asymmetry of the universe can be explained by the out-of-equilibrium decays of heavy right-handed neutrinos. We analyse this mechanism in the framework of a supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model and show that lepton number violating scatterings are indispensable for baryogenesis, even though they may wash-out a generated asymmetry. By assuming a similar pattern of mixings and masses for neutrinos and up-type quarks, as suggested by SO(10) unification, we can generate the observed baryon asymmetry without any fine tuning, if is broken at the unification scale GeV and, if $m_{\n_\m} \sim 3\cdot 10^{-3} $eV as preferred by the MSW solution to the solar neutrino deficit.

latex2e, 39 pages, 15 figures, uses epsfig and pstricks. Additional contribution to the CP-asymmetry added, conclusions unchanged. Final version, to appear in Nucl.Phys.B

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