Rescuing high-scale leptogenesis using primordial black holes

Bernal, Nicolás; Fong, Chee Sheng; Perez-Gonzalez, Yuber F.; Turner, Jessica

doi:10.1103/physrevd.106.035019

Rescuing high-scale leptogenesis using primordial black holes

Bernal, Nicolás; Fong, Chee Sheng; Perez-Gonzalez, Yuber F.; Turner, Jessica

Authors

Nicolás Bernal

Chee Sheng Fong

Yuber Perez Gonzalez yuber.f.perez-gonzalez@durham.ac.uk
Post Doctoral Research Associate

Jessica Turner jessica.turner@durham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor

Abstract

We explore the interplay between light primordial black holes (PBH) and high-scale baryogenesis, with a particular emphasis on leptogenesis. We first review a generic baryogenesis scenario where a heavy particle, X, with mass, MX, produced solely from PBH evaporation decays to generate a baryon asymmetry. We show that the viable parameter space is bounded from above by MX≲1017GeV and increases with decreasing MX. We demonstrate that regions of the leptogenesis parameter space, where the lightest right-handed neutrino (RHN) mass MN1≳1015GeV and neutrino mass scale mν≳0.1eV, excluded in standard cosmology due to ΔL=2 washout processes, become viable with the assistance of light PBHs. This scenario of PBH-assisted leptogenesis occurs because the PBHs radiate RHNs via Hawking evaporation late in the Universe’s evolution when the temperature of the thermal plasma is low relative to the RHN mass. Subsequently, these RHNs can decay and produce a lepton asymmetry while the washout processes are suppressed.

Citation

Bernal, N., Fong, C. S., Perez-Gonzalez, Y. F., & Turner, J. (2022). Rescuing high-scale leptogenesis using primordial black holes. Physical Review D, 106(3), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.106.035019

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Aug 2, 2022
Online Publication Date	Aug 18, 2022
Publication Date	2022-08
Deposit Date	Sep 28, 2022
Publicly Available Date	Sep 29, 2022
Journal	Physical Review D
Print ISSN	2470-0010
Electronic ISSN	2470-0029
Publisher	American Physical Society
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	106
Issue	3
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.106.035019

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