Speaker
Mrs
Nuria Rius
(IFIC, Valencia University-CSIC)
Description
We propose a mechanism for baryogenesis from particle decays or annihilations that can work at the TeV scale. Some heavy particles annihilate or decay into a heavy sterile neutrino $N$ (with $M \gtrsim 0.5$~TeV) and a ``light'' one $\nu$ (with $m \ll 100$~GeV), generating an asymmetry among the two helicity degrees of freedom of $\nu$. This asymmetry is partially transferred to Standard Model leptons via fast Yukawa interactions and reprocessed into a baryon asymmetry by the electroweak sphalerons. We illustrate this mechanism in a WIMPy baryogenesis model where the helicity asymmetry is generated in the annihilation of dark matter. This model connects the baryon asymmetry, dark matter, and neutrino masses.
Primary author
Mrs
Nuria Rius
(IFIC, Valencia University-CSIC)
Co-author
Mr
Juan Racker
(IFIC, Valencia University-CSIC)
