The related issues of Majorana CP violation in the lepton sector and leptogenesis are investigated in detail in two rather generic supersymmetric models with type I see-saw mechanism of neutrino mass generation and A(4) flavour symmetry, which naturally lead at leading order to tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing. The neutrino sector in this class of models is described at leading order by just two real parameters and one phase. This leads, in particular, to significant low energy constraints on the Majorana phases alpha(21) and alpha(31) in the PMNS matrix, which play the role of leptogenesis CP violating parameters in the generation of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe. We find that it is possible to generate the correct size and sign of the baryon asymmetry in both A(4) models. The sign of the baryon asymmetry is directly related to the signs of sin alpha(21) and/or sin alpha(31).

Majorana phases and leptogenesis in see-saw models with A(4) symmetry / Hagedorn, C; Molinaro, E; Petcov, S. T.. - In: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. - ISSN 1029-8479. - 2009:9(2009), pp. 1-30. [10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/115]

Majorana phases and leptogenesis in see-saw models with A(4) symmetry

PETCOV S. T.
2009-01-01

Abstract

The related issues of Majorana CP violation in the lepton sector and leptogenesis are investigated in detail in two rather generic supersymmetric models with type I see-saw mechanism of neutrino mass generation and A(4) flavour symmetry, which naturally lead at leading order to tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing. The neutrino sector in this class of models is described at leading order by just two real parameters and one phase. This leads, in particular, to significant low energy constraints on the Majorana phases alpha(21) and alpha(31) in the PMNS matrix, which play the role of leptogenesis CP violating parameters in the generation of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe. We find that it is possible to generate the correct size and sign of the baryon asymmetry in both A(4) models. The sign of the baryon asymmetry is directly related to the signs of sin alpha(21) and/or sin alpha(31).
2009
2009
9
1
30
115
Hagedorn, C; Molinaro, E; Petcov, S. T.
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