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Semikoz, V.B.; Sokoloff, D.D.; Valle, J.W.F. |
Title |
Lepton asymmetries and primordial hypermagnetic helicity evolution |
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2012 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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06 |
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6 |
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008 - 12pp |
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Magnetohydrodynamics; galactic magnetic fields; cosmic magnetic fields theory; particle physics – cosmology connection |
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The hypermagnetic helicity density at the electroweak phase transition (EWPT) exceeds many orders of magnitude the galactic magnetic helicity density. Together with previous magnetic helicity evolution calculations after the EWPT and hypermagnetic helicity conversion to the magnetic one at the EWPT, the present calculation completes the description of the evolution of this important topological feature of cosmological magnetic fields. It suggests that if the magnetic field seeding the galactic dynamo has a primordial origin, it should be substantially helical. This should be taken into account in scenarios of galactic magnetic field evolution with a cosmological seed. |
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[Semikoz, V. B.; Valle, J. W. F.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: semikoz@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000306003500008 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Mavromatos, N.E.; Mitsou, V.A. |
Title |
Magnetic monopoles revisited: Models and searches at colliders and in the Cosmos |
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Journal Article |
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2020 |
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International Journal of Modern Physics A |
Abbreviated Journal |
Int. J. Mod. Phys. A |
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35 |
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23 |
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2030012 - 81pp |
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Magnetic monopoles; electromagnetism; theory; experimental techniques; searches; LHC; ATLAS; MoEDAL; IceCube; ANTARES |
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In this review, we discuss recent developments in both the theory and the experimental searches of magnetic monopoles in past, current and future colliders and in the Cosmos. The theoretical models include, apart from the standard Grand Unified Theories, extensions of the Standard Model that admit magnetic monopole solutions with finite energy and masses that can be as light as a few TeV. Specifically, we discuss, among other scenarios, modified Cho-Maison monopoles and magnetic monopoles in (string-inspired, higher derivative) Born-Infeld extensions of the hypercharge sector of the Standard Model. We also outline the conditions for which effective field theories describing the interaction of monopoles with photons are valid and can be used for result interpretation in monopole production at colliders. The experimental part of the review focuses on, past and present, cosmic and collider searches, including the latest bounds on monopole masses and magnetic charges by the ATLAS and MoEDAL experiments at the LHC, as well as prospects for future searches. |
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[Mavromatos, Nick E.] Kings Coll London, Dept Phys, Theoret Particle Phys & Cosmol Grp, London WC2R 2LS, England, Email: nikolaos.mavromatos@kcl.ac.uk; |
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0217-751x |
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WOS:000563095400001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Sepehri, A.; Pincak, R.; Olmo, G.J. |
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M-theory, graphene-branes and superconducting wormholes |
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Journal Article |
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2017 |
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International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
Int. J. Geom. Methods Mod. Phys. |
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14 |
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11 |
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1750167 - 32pp |
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M-theory; wormholes; graphene; superconductors |
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Exploiting an M-brane system whose structure and symmetries are inspired by those of graphene (what we call a graphene-brane), we propose here a similitude between two layers of graphene joined by a nanotube and wormholes scenarios in the brane world. By using the symmetries and mathematical properties of the M-brane system, we show here how to possibly increase its conductivity, to the point of making it as a superconductor. The questions of whether and under which condition this might point to the corresponding real graphene structures becoming superconducting are briefly outlined. |
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[Sepehri, Alireza] Shahid Bahonar Univ, Fac Phys, POB 76175, Kerman, Iran, Email: alireza.sepehri@uk.ac.ir; |
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0219-8878 |
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WOS:000413442500018 |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3334 |
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Alidra, M. et al; Torro Pastor, E. |
Title |
The MATHUSLA test stand |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2021 |
Publication |
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A |
Abbreviated Journal |
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A |
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985 |
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164661 - 9pp |
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Long-lived particles; LHC; MATHUSLA; Backscattered cosmic rays |
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The rate of muons from LHC pp collisions reaching the surface above the ATLAS interaction point is measured as a function of the ATLAS luminosity and compared with expected rates from decays of W and Z bosons and b- and c-quark jets. In addition, data collected during periods without beams circulating in the LHC provide a measurement of the background from cosmic ray inelastic backscattering that is compared to simulation predictions. Data were recorded during 2018 in a 2.5 x 2.5 x 6.5 m(3) active volume MATHUSLA test stand detector unit consisting of two scintillator planes, one at the top and one at the bottom, which defined the trigger, and six layers of RPCs between them, grouped into three (x, y)-measuring layers separated by 1.74 m from each other. Triggers selecting both upward-going tracks and downward-going tracks were used. |
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[Alidra, Maf; Ball, Austin; Guida, Roberto] CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, Email: Emma.Torro.Pastor@cern.ch |
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0168-9002 |
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WOS:000592358200022 |
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no |
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yes |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4637 |
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Ancilotto, F.; Barranco, M.; Navarro, J.; Pi, M. |
Title |
Cavitation of electron bubbles in liquid parahydrogen |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2011 |
Publication |
Molecular Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
Mol. Phys. |
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109 |
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23-24 |
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2757-2762 |
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liquid parahydrogen; electron bubbles; density functional theory; capillary approximation |
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Within a finite-temperature density functional approach, we have investigated the structure of electron bubbles in liquid parahydrogen below the saturated vapour pressure, determining the critical pressure at which electron bubbles explode as a function of temperature. The electron-parahydrogen interaction has been modelled by a Hartree-type local potential fitted to the experimental value of the conduction band-edge for a delocalized electron in pH(2). We have found that the pressure for bubble explosion is, in absolute value, about a factor of two smaller than that of the homogeneous cavitation pressure in the liquid. Comparison with the results obtained within the capillary model shows the limitations of this approximation, especially as temperature increases. |
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[Barranco, Manuel; Pi, Marti] Univ Barcelona, Fac Fis, Dept ECM, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain, Email: manuel@ecm.ub.es |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd |
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0026-8976 |
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WOS:000299109300007 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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930 |
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Davesne, D.; Pastore, A.; Navarro, J. |
Title |
Linear response theory with finite-range interactions |
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Journal Article |
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2021 |
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Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. |
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120 |
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103870 - 55pp |
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Linear response theory; Finite-range interactions; Gogny and Nakada interactions; Finite size instabilities; Continued fraction approximation; Multipolar expansion |
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This review focuses on the calculation of infinite nuclear matter response functions using phenomenological finite-range interactions, equipped or not with tensor terms. These include Gogny and Nakada families, which are commonly used in the literature. Because of the finite-range, the main technical difficulty stems from the exchange terms of the particle-hole interaction. We first present results based on the so-called Landau and Landau-like approximations of the particle-hole interaction. Then, we review two methods which in principle provide numerically exact response functions. The first one is based on a multipolar expansion of both the particle-hole interaction and the particle-hole propagator and the second one consists in a continued fraction expansion of the response function. The numerical precision can be pushed to any degree of accuracy, but it is actually shown that two or three terms suffice to get converged results. Finally, we apply the formalism to the determination of possible finite-size instabilities induced by a finite-range interaction. |
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[Davesne, D.] Univ Lyon, F-69003 Lyon, France, Email: alessandro.pastore@york.ac.uk |
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0146-6410 |
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WOS:000674530100008 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Caputo, A.; Esposito, A.; Geoffray, E.; Polosa, A.D.; Sun, S.C. |
Title |
Dark matter, dark photon and superfluid He-4 from effective field theory |
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Journal Article |
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2020 |
Publication |
Physics Letters B |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Lett. B |
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802 |
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135258 - 6pp |
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Light dark matter; Effective theory; Helium; Phonon; Dark photon |
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We consider a model of sub-GeV dark matter whose interaction with the Standard Model is mediated by a new vector boson (the dark photon) which couples kinetically to the photon. We describe the possibility of constraining such a model using a superfluid He-4 detector, by means of an effective theory for the description of the superfluid phonon. We find that such a detector could provide bounds that are competitive with other direct detection experiments only for ultralight vector mediator, in agreement with previous studies. As a byproduct we also present, for the first time, the low-energy effective field theory for the interaction between photons and phonons. |
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[Caputo, Andrea] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Edificio Inst Invest,Catedratico Jose Beltran 2, Paterna 46980, Spain, Email: angelo.esposito@epfl.ch |
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WOS:000515091400017 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Borsato, M. et al; Zurita, J.; Henry, L.; Jashal, B.K.; Oyanguren, A. |
Title |
Unleashing the full power of LHCb to probe stealth new physics |
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Journal Article |
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2022 |
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Reports on Progress in Physics |
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Rep. Prog. Phys. |
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85 |
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2 |
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024201 - 45pp |
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LHCb; stealth physics; BSM physics; hidden sectors; long-lived particles; dark matter |
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In this paper, we describe the potential of the LHCb experiment to detect stealth physics. This refers to dynamics beyond the standard model that would elude searches that focus on energetic objects or precision measurements of known processes. Stealth signatures include long-lived particles and light resonances that are produced very rarely or together with overwhelming backgrounds. We will discuss why LHCb is equipped to discover this kind of physics at the Large Hadron Collider and provide examples of well-motivated theoretical models that can be probed with great detail at the experiment. |
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[Borsato, M.] Heidelberg Univ, Phys Inst, Heidelberg, Germany, Email: xabier.cid.vidal@cern.ch |
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WOS:000762056700001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Boggia, M.; Cruz-Martinez, J.M.; Frellesvig, H.; Glover, N.; Gomez-Ambrosio, R.; Gonella, G.; Haddad, Y.; Ilnicka, A.; Jones, S.; Kassabov, Z.; Krauss, F.; Megy, T.; Melini, D.; Napoletano, D.; Passarino, G.; Patel, S.; Rodriguez-Vazquez, M.; Wolf, T. |
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The HiggsTools handbook: a beginners guide to decoding the Higgs sector |
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Journal Article |
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2018 |
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Journal of Physics G |
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J. Phys. G |
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45 |
Issue |
6 |
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065004 - 152pp |
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LHC physics; Higgs boson; new physics searches; effective field theories; Higgs momentum distributions |
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This report summarises some of the activities of the HiggsTools initial training network working group in the period 2015-2017. The main goal of this working group was to produce a document discussing various aspects of state-of-the-art Higgs physics at the large hadron collider (LHC) in a pedagogic manner The first part of the report is devoted to a description of phenomenological searches for new physics (NP) at the LHC. All of the available studies of the couplings of the new resonance discovered in 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS experiments (Aad et al (ATLAS Collaboration) 2012 Phys. Lett. B 716 1-29; Chatrchyan et al (CMS Collaboration) 2012 Phys. Lett. B 716 30-61) conclude that it is compatible with the Higgs boson of the standard model (SM) within present precision. So far the LHC experiments have given no direct evidence for any physical phenomena that cannot be described by the SM. As the experimental measurements become more and more precise, there is a pressing need for a consistent framework in which deviations from the SM predictions can be computed precisely. Such a framework should be applicable to measurements in all sectors of particle physics, not only LHC Higgs measurements but also electroweak precision data, etc. We critically review the use of the k-framework, fiducial and simplified template cross sections, effective field theories, pseudoobservables and phenomenological Lagrangians. Some of the concepts presented here are well known and were used already at the time of the large electron-positron collider (LEP) experiment. However, after years of theoretical and experimental development, these techniques have been refined, and we describe new tools that have been introduced in order to improve the comparison between theory and experimental data. In the second part of the report, we propose Phi(eta)* as a new and complementary observable for studying Higgs boson production at large transverse momentum in the case where the Higgs boson decays to two photons. The Phi(eta)* variable depends on measurements of the angular directions and rapidities of the two Higgs decay products rather than the energies, and exploits the information provided by the calorimeter in the detector. We show that, even without tracking information, the experimental resolution for Phi(eta)* is better than that of the transverse momentum of the photon pair, particularly at low transverse momentum. We make a detailed study of the phenomenology of the Phi(eta)* variable, contrasting the behaviour with the Higgs transverse momentum distribution using a variety of theoretical tools including event generators and fixed order perturbative computations. We consider the theoretical uncertainties associated with both p TH and Phi(eta)* distributions. Unlike the transverse momentum distribution, the Phi(eta)* distribution is well predicted using the Higgs effective field theory in which the top quark is integrated out-even at large values of Phi(eta)*-thereby making this a better observable for extracting the parameters of the Higgs interaction. In contrast, the potential of the Phi(eta)* distribution as a probe of NP is rather limited, since although the overall rate is affected by the presence of additional heavy fields, the shape of the Phi(eta)* distribution is relatively insensitive to heavy particle thresholds. |
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[Boggia, M.; Gonella, G.; Jones, S.; Megy, T.] Albert Ludwigs Univ Freiburg, Phys Inst, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany, Email: raquel.gomez-ambrosio@durham.ac.uk |
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WOS:000434094000001 |
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Racker, J.; Pena, M.; Rius, N. |
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Leptogenesis with small violation of B – L |
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2012 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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07 |
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7 |
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030 - 18pp |
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leptogenesis; neutrino theory |
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We analyze leptogenesis in the context of seesaw models with almost conserved lepton number, focusing on the L-conserving contribution to the flavoured CP asymmetries. We find that, contrary to previous claims, successful leptogenesis is feasible for masses of the lightest heavy neutrino as low as M-1 similar to 10(6) GeV, without resorting to the resonant enhancement of the CP asymmetry for strongly degenerate heavy neutrinos. This lower limit renders thermal leptogenesis compatible with the gravitino bound in supersymmetric scenarios. |
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[Racker, J.; Pena, Manuel; Rius, Nuria] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, Valencia 46071, Spain, Email: racker@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000307079600025 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1166 |
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