%0 Journal Article
%T Inflation and majoron dark matter in the neutrino seesaw mechanism
%A Boucenna, M. S.
%A Morisi, S.
%A Shafi, Q.
%A Valle, J. W. F.
%J Physical Review D
%D 2014
%V 90
%N 5
%I Amer Physical Soc
%@ 1550-7998
%G English
%F Boucenna_etal2014
%O WOS:000342148000004
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=1949), last updated on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 14:36:26 +0000
%X We propose that inflation and dark matter have a common origin, connected to the neutrino mass generation scheme. As a model we consider spontaneous breaking of global lepton number within the seesaw mechanism. We show that it provides an acceptable inflationary scenario consistent with the recent cosmic microwave background B-mode observation by the BICEP2 experiment. The scheme may also account for the baryon asymmetry of the Universe through leptogenesis for reasonable parameter choices.
%R 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.055023
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1404.3198
%U https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.055023
%P 055023-6pp