On Resonant Leptogenesis

TL;DR

This paper investigates how the time-dependent CP asymmetry, influenced by quantum effects, impacts resonant leptogenesis, revealing significant differences from traditional models that neglect this time evolution.

Contribution

It introduces the importance of quantum memory effects in the CP asymmetry for resonant leptogenesis, highlighting their impact on the generated asymmetry.

Findings

Time-dependent CP asymmetry significantly alters leptogenesis outcomes.

Quantum memory effects lead to qualitative and quantitative differences.

Results emphasize the need to include time evolution in leptogenesis models.

Abstract

It has been recently shown that the quantum Boltzmann equations may be relevant for the leptogenesis scenario. In particular, they lead to a time-dependent CP asymmetry which depends upon the previous dynamics of the system. This memory effect in the CP asymmetry is particularly important in resonant leptogenesis where the asymmetry is generated by the decays of nearly mass-degenerate right-handed neutrinos. We study the impact of the nontrivial time evolution of the CP asymmetry in resonant leptogenesis, both in the one-flavour case and with flavour effects included. We show that significant qualitative and quantitative differences arise with respect to the case in which the time dependence of the CP asymmetry is neglected.