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Vincent, A.C.; Fernandez Martinez, E.; Hernandez, P.; Mena, O.; Lattanzi, M. |
Title |
Revisiting cosmological bounds on sterile neutrinos |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2015 |
Publication |
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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04 |
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4 |
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006 - 23pp |
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particle physics – cosmology connection; cosmological neutrinos; cosmology of theories beyond the SM |
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We employ state-of-the art cosmological observables including supernova surveys and BAO information to provide constraints on the mass and mixing angle of a non-resonantly produced sterile neutrino species, showing that cosmology can effectively rule out sterile neutrinos which decay between BBN and the present day. The decoupling of an additional heavy neutrino species can modify the time dependence of the Universe's expansion between BBN and recombination and, in extreme cases, lead to an additional matter-dominated period; while this could naively lead to a younger Universe with a larger Hubble parameter, it could later be compensated by the extra radiation expected in the form of neutrinos from sterile decay. However, recombination-era observables including the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the shift parameter R-CMB and the sound horizon r(s) from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) severely constrain this scenario. We self-consistently include the full time-evolution of the coupled sterile neutrino and standard model sectors in an MCMC, showing that if decay occurs after BBN, the sterile neutrino is essentially bounded by the constraint sin(2) theta less than or similar to 0.026(m(s)/eV)(-2). |
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[Vincent, Aaron C.] Univ Durham, Dept Phys, IPPP, Durham DH1 3LE, England, Email: aaron.vincent@durham.ac.uk; |
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1475-7516 |
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WOS:000355742500007 |
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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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2261 |
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Coloma, P.; Donini, A.; Fernandez-Martinez, E.; Hernandez, P. |
Title |
Precision on leptonic mixing parameters at future neutrino oscillation experiments |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2012 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
Volume |
06 |
Issue |
6 |
Pages |
073 - 27pp |
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Neutrino Physics; CP violation; Standard Model |
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We perform a comparison of the different future neutrino oscillation experiments based on the achievable precision in the determination of the fundamental parameters theta(13) and the CP phase, delta, assuming that theta(13) is in the range indicated by the recent Daya Bay measurement. We study the non-trivial dependence of the error on delta on its true value. When matter effects are small, the largest error is found at the points where CP violation is maximal, and the smallest at the CP conserving points. The situation is different when matter effects are sizable. As a result of this effect, the comparison of the physics reach of different experiments on the basis of the CP discovery potential, as usually done, can be misleading. We have compared various proposed super-beam, beta-beam and neutrino factory setups on the basis of the relative precision of theta(13) and the error on delta. Neutrino factories, both high-energy or low-energy, outperform alternative beam technologies. An ultimate precision on theta(13) below 3% and an error on delta of <= 7 degrees at 1 sigma (1 d.o.f.) can be obtained at a neutrino factory. |
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[Coloma, P.] Virginia Tech, Dept Phys, Ctr Neutrino Phys, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA, Email: coloma@vt.edu; |
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1126-6708 |
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WOS:000306416500074 |
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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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1141 |
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Barducci, D.; Bertuzzo, E.; Caputo, A.; Hernandez, P. |
Title |
Minimal flavor violation in the see-saw portal |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2020 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
Volume |
06 |
Issue |
6 |
Pages |
185 - 28pp |
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Neutrino Physics; Beyond Standard Model; CP violation |
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We consider an extension of the Standard Model with two singlet leptons, with masses in the electroweak range, that induce neutrino masses via the see-saw mechanism, plus a generic new physics sector at a higher scale, A. We apply the minimal flavor violation (MFV) principle to the corresponding Effective Field Theory (nu SMEFT) valid at energy scales E << A. We identify the irreducible sources of lepton flavor and lepton number violation at the renormalizable level, and apply the MFV ansatz to derive the scaling of the Wilson coefficients of the nu SMEFT operators up to dimension six. We highlight the most important phenomenological consequences of this hypothesis in the rates for exotic Higgs decays, the decay length of the heavy neutrinos, and their production modes at present and future colliders. We also comment on possible astrophysical implications. |
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[Barducci, Daniele] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento Fis, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy, Email: daniele.barducci@roma1.infn.it; |
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1029-8479 |
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WOS:000546965800003 |
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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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4462 |
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Donini, A.; Hernandez, P.; Lopez-Pavon, J.; Maltoni, M.; Schwetz, T. |
Title |
The minimal 3+2 neutrino model versus oscillation anomalies |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2012 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
Volume |
07 |
Issue |
7 |
Pages |
161 - 20pp |
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Neutrino Physics; Beyond Standard Model |
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We study the constraints imposed by neutrino oscillation experiments on the minimal extension of the Standard Model that can explain neutrino masses, which requires the addition of just two singlet Weyl fermions. The most general renormalizable couplings of this model imply generically four massive neutrino mass eigenstates while one remains massless: it is therefore a minimal 3+2 model. The possibility to account for the confirmed solar, atmospheric and long-baseline oscillations, together with the LSND/MiniBooNE and reactor anomalies is addressed. We find that the minimal model can fit oscillation data including the anomalies better than the standard 3 nu model and similarly to the 3 + 2 phenomenological models, even though the number of free parameters is much smaller than in the latter. Accounting for the anomalies in the minimal model favours a normal hierarchy of the light states and requires a large reactor angle, in agreement with recent measurements. Our analysis of the model employs a new parametrization of seesaw models that extends the Casas-Ibarra one to regimes where higher order corrections in the light-heavy mixings are significant. |
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[Donini, A.; Hernandez, P.] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, CSIC, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: andrea.donini@uam.es; |
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1126-6708 |
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WOS:000307299800039 |
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no |
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yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
1161 |
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Agarwalla, S.K.; Hernandez, P. |
Title |
Probing the neutrino mass hierarchy with Super-Kamiokande |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2012 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
Volume |
10 |
Issue |
10 |
Pages |
086 - 14pp |
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Neutrino Physics; Beyond Standard Model |
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We show that for recently discovered large values of theta(13), a superbeam with an average neutrino energy of similar to 5 GeV, such as those being proposed at CERN, if pointing to Super-Kamiokande (L similar or equal to 8770 km), could reveal the neutrino mass hierarchy at 5 sigma in less than two years irrespective of the true hierarchy and CP phase. The measurement relies on the near resonant matter effect in the nu(mu) -> nu(e) oscillation channel, and can be done counting the total number of appearance events with just a neutrino beam. |
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[Agarwalla, Sanjib Kumar; Hernandez, Pilar] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: Sanjib.Agarwalla@ific.uv.es; |
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1126-6708 |
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WOS:000310851600047 |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1251 |
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Chun, E.J.; Cvetic, G.; Dev, P.S.B.; Drewes, M.; Fong, C.S.; Garbrecht, B.; Hambye, T.; Harz, J.; Hernandez, P.; Kim, C.S.; Molinaro, E.; Nardi, E.; Racker, J.; Rius, N.; Zamora-Saa, J. |
Title |
Probing leptogenesis |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2018 |
Publication |
International Journal of Modern Physics A |
Abbreviated Journal |
Int. J. Mod. Phys. A |
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33 |
Issue |
5-6 |
Pages |
1842005 - 99pp |
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Neutrino interactions; nonstandard-model neutrinos; right-handed neutrinos; extensions of electroweak gauge sector; supersymmetric models |
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The focus of this paper lies on the possible experimental tests of leptogenesis scenarios. We consider both leptogenesis generated from oscillations, as well as leptogenesis from out-of-equilibrium decays. As the Akhmedov-Rubakov-Smirnov (ARS) mechanism allows for heavy neutrinos in the GeV range, this opens up a plethora of possible experimental tests, e.g. at neutrino oscillation experiments, neutrinoless double beta decay, and direct searches for neutral heavy leptons at future facilities. In contrast, testing leptogenesis from out-of-equilibrium decays is a quite difficult task. We comment on the necessary conditions for having successful leptogenesis at the TeV-scale. We further discuss possible realizations and their model specific testability in extended seesaw models, models with extended gauge sectors, and supersymmetric leptogenesis. Not being able to test high-scale leptogenesis directly, we present a way to falsify such scenarios by focusing on their washout processes. This is discussed specifically for the left-right symmetric model and the observation of a heavy W-R, as well as model independently when measuring Delta L = 2 washout processes at the LHC or neutrinoless double beta decay. |
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[Chun, E. J.] Korea Inst Adv Study, Seoul 02455, South Korea, Email: jharz@lpthe.jussieu.fr |
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World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd |
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0217-751x |
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WOS:000426586100006 |
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yes |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3507 |
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Bernardoni, F.; Hernandez, P.; Necco, S. |
Title |
Heavy-light mesons in the epsilon-regime |
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Journal Article |
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2010 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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01 |
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1 |
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070 - 30pp |
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Lattice QCD; Heavy Quark Physics; Chiral Lagrangians |
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We study the finite-size scaling of heavy-light mesons in the static limit. We compute two-point functions of chiral current densities as well as pseudoscalar densities in the epsilon-regime of heavy meson Chiral Perturbation Theory (HMChPT). As expected, finite volume dependence turns out to be significant in this regime and can be predicted in the effective theory in terms of the infinite-volume low-energy couplings. These results might be relevant for extraction of heavy-meson properties from lattice simulations. |
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[Bernardoni, F.; Hernandez, P.] Univ Valencia, Dpto Fis Teor, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: fabio.bernardoni@ific.uv.es |
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1126-6708 |
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ISI:000273717700041 |
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yes |
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IFIC @ elepoucu @ |
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510 |
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Baeza-Ballesteros, J.; Hernandez, P.; Romero-Lopez, F. |
Title |
A lattice study of pi pi scattering at large N-c |
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Journal Article |
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2022 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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06 |
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6 |
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049 - 39pp |
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Hadronic Spectroscopy; Structure and Interactions; Lattice QCD; 1/N Expansion; Chiral Lagrangian |
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We present the first lattice study of pion-pion scattering with varying number of colors, N-c. We use lattice simulations with four degenerate quark flavors, N-f = 4, and N-c= 3 – 6. We focus on two scattering channels that do not involve vacuum diagrams. These correspond to two irreducible representations of the SU(4) flavor group: the fully symmetric one, SS, and the fully antisymmetric one, AA. The former is a repulsive channel equivalent to the isospin-2 channel of SU(2). By contrast, the latter is attractive and only exists for N-f >= 4. A representative state is (vertical bar D-s(+) pi(+)> – vertical bar D+ K+ >) /root 2. Using Lfischer's formalism, we extract the near-threshold scattering amplitude and we match our results to Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) at large N-c. For this, we compute the analytical U(N-f) ChPT prediction for two-pion scattering, and use the lattice results to constrain the N-c scaling of the relevant low-energy couplings. |
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[Baeza-Ballesteros, Jorge; Hernandez, Pilar; Romero-Lopez, Fernando] Univ Valencia, CSIC, IFIC, Paterna 46980, Spain, Email: jorge.baeza@uv.es; |
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WOS:000809342900001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5258 |
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Hernandez, P. |
Title |
CP violation in the neutrino sector: The new frontier |
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Journal Article |
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2012 |
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Comptes Rendus Physique |
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C. R. Phys. |
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13 |
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2 |
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186-192 |
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Flavour physics; Neutrino physics; Matter-antimatter asymmetry |
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The discovery of neutrino masses has revealed a new flavour sector in the Standard Model. Just like the quark flavour sector, it contains a seed of CP violation, resulting in an asymmetric behaviour of matter and antimatter. It is argued that this new source of leptonic CP violation may be discovered in more precise neutrino oscillation experiments involving neutrino beams with energies in the GeV range that will be sent to distances of a few thousand kilometres. |
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[Hernandez, Pilar] Dpto Fis Teor UV, Valencia 46071, Spain, Email: m.pilar.hernandez@uv.es |
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Elsevier France-Editions Scientifiques Medicales Elsevier |
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WOS:000301037700015 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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934 |
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Hernandez, P.; Kekic, M.; Lopez-Pavon, J.; Racker, J.; Salvado, J. |
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Testable baryogenesis is in seesaw models |
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Journal Article |
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2016 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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08 |
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8 |
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157 - 29pp |
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Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; CP violation; Neutrino Physics; Beyond Standard Model |
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We revisit the production of baryon asymmetries in the minimal type I seesaw model with heavy Majorana singlets in the GeV range. In particular we include “washout” effects from scattering processes with gauge bosons, Higgs decays and inverse decays, besides the dominant top scatterings. We show that in the minimal model with two singlets, and for an inverted light neutrino ordering, future measurements from SHiP and neutrinoless double beta decay could in principle provide sufficient information to predict the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. We also show that SHiP measurements could provide very valuable information on the PMNS CP phases. |
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[Hernandez, P.; Kekic, M.; Racker, J.; Salvado, J.] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Edificio Inst Invest,Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, Valencia 46980, Spain, Email: m.pilar.hernandez@uv.es; |
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WOS:000382398000004 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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2787 |
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