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Leptogenesis from N-dominated early universe

K. Hamaguchi, Hitoshi Murayama, T. Yanagida

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0109030

Abstract

We investigate in detail the leptogenesis by the decay of coherent right-handed sneutrino N having dominated the energy density of the early universe, which was originally proposed by HM and TY. Once the N dominant universe is realized, the amount of the generated lepton asymmetry (and hence baryon asymmetry) is determined only by the properties of the right-handed neutrino, regardless of the history before it dominates the universe. Moreover, thanks to the entropy production by the decay of the right-handed sneutrino, thermally produced relics are sufficiently diluted. In particular, the cosmological gravitino problem can be avoided even when the reheating temperature of the inflation is higher than 1010, in a wide range of the gravitino mass m3/2 10--100. If the gravitino mass is in the range m3/2 10--1 as in the some gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking models, the dark matter in our universe can be dominantly composed of the gravitino. Quantum fluctuation of the N during inflation causes an isocurvature fluctuation which may be detectable in the future.

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