Thermal leptogenesis in anisotropic cosmology

Abstract

There is no evidence that the universe must have been homogeneous and isotropic before the big bang nucleosynthesis. The Bianchi type-I cosmology is the simplest homogeneous but anisotropic cosmology. In this work, we investigate thermal leptogenesis, as a baryogenesis scenario, in the Bianchi type-I cosmology. Our results show that for specific values of the anisotropy, the modified thermal leptogenesis generated more baryon asymmetry than the standard one. In this way, anisotropy can help to achieve low-scale leptogenesis.