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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 89, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.075014
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- Canadian Institute of Particle Physics
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Government of Canada through Industry Canada
- Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research and Innovation
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Baryogenesis through neutrino oscillations is an elegant mechanism that has found several realizations in the literature corresponding to different parts of the model parameter space. Its appeal stems from its minimality and dependence only on physics below the weak scale. In this paper we show that by focusing on the physical time scales of leptogenesis instead of the model parameters, a more comprehensive picture emerges. The different regimes previously identified can be understood as different relative orderings of these time scales. This approach also shows that all regimes require a coincidence of time scales and this in turn translates to a certain tuning of the parameters, whether in mass terms or Yukawa couplings. Indeed, we show that the amount of tuning involved in the minimal model is never less than one part in 105 according to a metric constructed from a combination of the sterile neutrino mass degeneracy and the Barbieri-Giudice tuning of the Yukawa coupling. Finally, we explore an extended model, where the tuning can be removed in exchange for the introduction of a new degree of freedom in the form of a leptophilic Higgs with a vacuum expectation value of the order of GeV.
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