Effective Theory of Resonant Leptogenesis in the Closed-Time-Path Approach

TL;DR

This paper develops a unified theoretical framework using Closed-Time-Path methods to describe resonant leptogenesis, capturing oscillations, decay processes, and cosmological effects in a consistent manner.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive formalism for resonant leptogenesis that includes oscillations, decay, and universe expansion effects within a single approach.

Findings

Derives charge asymmetry from mixing particles using Kadanoff-Baym equations.

Recovers standard results for resonant leptogenesis asymmetry.

Provides analytic solutions illustrating the formalism qualitatively.

Abstract

We describe mixing scalar particles and Majorana fermions using Closed-Time-Path methods. From the Kadanoff-Baym equations, we obtain the charge asymmetry, that is generated from decays and inverse decays of the mixing particles. Within one single formalism, we thereby treat Leptogenesis from oscillations and recover as well the standard results for the asymmetry in Resonant Leptogenesis, which apply when the oscillation frequency is much larger than the decay rate. Analytic solutions for two mixing neutral particles in a constant-temperature background illustrate our results qualitatively. We also perform the modification of the kinetic equations that is necessary in order to take account of the expansion of the Universe and the washout of the asymmetry.