Dr
Giorgio Arcadi
(MPIfK, Heidelberg)
23/05/2018, 14:00
A compelling mechanism for leptogenesis consists into CP-violating oscillations of mass-degenerate pairs of sterile neutrinos with masses lying at the GeV scale. This kind of setup finds a natural embedding in models like the Inverse See-Saw, where the mass degeneracy of these neutrino pairs is associated to a small violation of the lepton number. We present the resulst of a systematic study...
Dr
Kai Schmitz
(MPIK Heidelberg)
23/05/2018, 14:20
Standard thermal leptogenesis in the type-I seesaw model requires very heavy right-handed neutrinos (RHNs). This diminishes the prospects of directly testing this scenario in experiments and, thus, motivates efforts to construct models that generate the baryon asymmetry of the Universe at a lower RHN mass scale. In this talk, I will discuss two such alternative scenarios: First, I will revisit...
Dr
Marco Chianese
(University of Southampton)
23/05/2018, 14:40
We confront recent experimental results on neutrino mixing parameters with the requirements from strong thermal $SO(10)$-inspired leptogenesis. There is a nice agreement with latest global analyses supporting $\sin\delta < 0$ and normal ordering at $ \sim 95\%$ C.L. On the other hand, the more stringent experimental lower bound on the atmospheric mixing angle starts to corner this paradigm....
Sam Rowley
(University of Southampton)
23/05/2018, 15:00
The Littlest Seesaw model based on two right-handed neutrinos with constrained Yukawa couplings provides a highly predictive description of neutrino masses and PMNS mixing parameters. If realised at high energies there will be renormalisation group corrections to the low energy predictions, which depend on the right-handed neutrino masses. We perform a chi squared analysis to determine the...