Dominant Thermal Resonant Mechanism for Low-Scale Leptogenesis

TL;DR

This paper introduces Thermal Resonant Leptogenesis (TRL), a new thermal mechanism that can generate the universe's baryon asymmetry without requiring quasi-degenerate sterile neutrinos, and discusses its experimental prospects.

Contribution

The paper identifies and demonstrates a new thermal resonant channel in low-scale leptogenesis, expanding the understanding of baryogenesis mechanisms.

Findings

TRL can produce the observed baryon asymmetry without quasi-degenerate sterile neutrinos.

The active-sterile neutrino mixing in TRL differs from other scenarios.

TRL can be tested in fixed-target, long-lived particle, and collider experiments.

Abstract

We explicitly demonstrate the importance of a new thermal resonant channel in the context of low-scale leptogenesis, which goes beyond the well-known mixing and oscillation of massive singlet neutrinos. This new channel is always present when considering the thermally-induced Higgs decay to leptons and relativistic singlet neutrinos, and can become dominant thanks to thermally-generated resonant lepton-doublet flavour coherences. This mechanism, which we call Thermal Resonant Leptogenesis (TRL), can yield the observed baryon asymmetry in our universe, even if there is no resonant enhancement from quasi-degenerate sterile neutrinos. The required active-to-sterile neutrino mixing for TRL differs from other known low-scale leptogenesis scenarios and can be probed in fixed-target and long-lived particle experiments, and by displaced vertex searches at high-energy colliders.