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arXiv 2001.11505hep-phastro-ph.CO
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一个关于万物的小理论,用重中性轻子

A little theory of everything, with heavy neutral leptons

James M. Cline, Matteo Puel, Takashi Toma

摘要:

最近提出了一个新的“阿弗莱克-戴恩暴胀”模型,它由携带重子数的复暴胀子产生重子不对称性,同时又与宇宙微波背景的约束相一致。我们调整这个模型,使暴胀子携带轻子数,并通过准狄拉克重中性轻子(HNL)和sphaleron将轻子不对称性传递给标准模型重子。其中一个质量为$\lesssim 4.5\,$ GeV的HNL可能是(部分)不对称的暗物质(DM),其不对称性由重子的不对称性决定。它的稳定性与最轻中微子质量的消失直接相关。中微子质量是通过将质量超过暴胀标度的重无菌中微子积分而产生的。该模型为标准模型中缺失的所有主要成分提供了一个经济来源:暴胀、重子生成、中微子质量和暗物质。HNL可以在像SHiP的固定靶实验中探测,可能表现出$N$ - $\bar N$振荡。耗尽DM对称分量所需的光单重标量可以在束流收集实验中发现,并寻找罕见的衰变,这可能解释了KOTO合作最近观察到的异常事件。DM HNL受到直接搜索的强烈约束,并且可能具有宇宙学上有趣的自相互作用截面。

英文摘要:

Recently a new model of "Affleck-Dine inflation" was presented, that produces the baryon asymmetry from a complex inflaton carrying baryon number, while being consistent with constraints from the cosmic microwave background. We adapt this model such that the inflaton carries lepton number, and communicates the lepton asymmetry to the standard model baryons via quasi-Dirac heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) and sphalerons. One of these HNLs, with mass $\lesssim 4.5\,$GeV, can be (partially) asymmetric dark matter (DM), whose asymmetry is determined by that of the baryons. Its stability is directly related to the vanishing of the lightest neutrino mass. Neutrino masses are generated by integrating out heavy sterile neutrinos whose mass is above the inflation scale. The model provides an economical origin for all of the major ingredients missing from the standard model: inflation, baryogenesis, neutrino masses, and dark matter. The HNLs can be probed in fixed-target experiments like SHiP, possibly manifesting $N$-$\bar N$ oscillations. A light singlet scalar, needed for depleting the DM symmetric component, can be discovered in beam dump experiments and searches for rare decays, possibly explaining anomalous events recently observed by the KOTO collaboration. The DM HNL is strongly constrained by direct searches, and could have a cosmologically interesting self-interaction cross section.

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