$SO(10)$-inspired leptogenesis

TL;DR

This paper reviews $SO(10)$-inspired leptogenesis, highlighting how neutrino mass assumptions lead to testable predictions, including constraints on neutrino ordering and potential signals in upcoming experiments.

Contribution

It provides new insights into the role of flavor coupling in $SO(10)$-inspired leptogenesis and its implications for experimental tests.

Findings

Inverted neutrino mass ordering is not compatible with strict $SO(10)$-inspired conditions.

Certain solutions realize strong thermal leptogenesis, independent of initial conditions.

Flavor coupling significantly impacts $SO(10)$-inspired leptogenesis outcomes.

Abstract

In the first part of the talk, I review general properties of $SO(10)$-inspired leptogenesis. This high-scale leptogenesis scenario is based on the simple assumption that the neutrino Dirac mass matrix is not too different from the up quark mass matrix. After showing how this necessarily implies a production of the asymmetry from the next-to-lightest right handed neutrino decays, so-called $N_2$-leptogenesis, I discuss how this results into important testable constraints on low energy neutrino parameters. In particular inverted ordering is not viable if strict $SO(10)$-inspired conditions are assumed. This is an important test in view of the expected results from the JUNO experiment. I also discuss how a subset of the $SO(10)$-inspired leptogenesis solutions realises strong thermal leptogenesis, where the final asymmetry is independent of the initial conditions. In this case a signal might be discovered by next generation $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay experiments. In the second part, I present some new results from \cite{DiBari:2025zlv}, where the impact of flavour coupling on $SO(10)$-inspired leptogenesis has been studied in detail.