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Affleck-Dine leptogenesis with varying Peccei-Quinn scale

  • Kyu Jung Bae
  • , Howard Baer
  • , Koichi Hamaguchi
  • , Kazunori Nakayama

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Abstract

The Affleck-Dine leptogenesis scenario along the LHu flat direction is reconsidered. It is known that successful Affleck-Dine leptogenesis requires that the lightest neutrino mass is extremely small. This situation can be significantly relaxed if the neutrino mass in the early universe is different from the present one. We consider a supersymmetric Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnitsky (DFSZ) type model, which provides a solution to the strong CP problem and generates a SUSY μ-term and right-handed neutrino masses. If the PQ scale during lepton number generation is much larger than the present value, leptogenesis is very efficient so that enough baryon number can be generated without introducing a hierarchically small neutrino mass. The final baryon asymmetry is related to the μ-term, and hence linked to the level of electroweak fine-tuning. We also show the PQ breaking scalar dynamics that keeps a large PQ breaking scale during inflation and lepton number generation. The μ-term generating superpotential plays an important role for preserving the lepton asymmetry during saxion oscillation. In this scenario, the axion isocurvature perturbation is naturally suppressed.

Original languageEnglish
Article number17
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2017
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Feb 2017

Keywords

  • Beyond Standard Model
  • Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM
  • Supersymmetric Standard Model

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