
JOINT PARTICLE SEMINAR
Date: Wednesday, 21
January 2004
Time:
3:00 p.m.
Place: 4135 Frederick Reines Hall
Speaker: Silvia
Pascoli, UCLA
Title: On the
connection between leptogenesis and low-energy leptonic CP-violation
Abstract: The origin of
the matter-antimatter asymmetry is one of the most important questions
in cosmology. As the Standard Model cannot provide a satisfactory
explanation of the baryon asymmetry, at present one of the most studied
mechanisms to account for it is leptogenesis. The latter is
particularly appealing because it takes place in the context of the
see-saw mechanism, which at the same time naturally explains the
smallness of neutrino masses. Establishing a connection between the
parameters at
low energy (neutrino masses, mixing angles and CP-violating phases),
and at high energy (relevant in leptogenesis) has gathered a great
interest in the last few years. As the parameters in the see-saw models
are more than the ones which are present in the low-energy effective
theory and are in principle measurable in the present and future
experiments, in general, there is no direct link between the two.
However most specific models allow for such a connection. I will
discuss in general the possibility to establish such a connection.
Furthermore I will present two models in which the link is studied in
detail: first a hierarchical see-saw model in which there is no direct
connection between the magnitude of CP-violation effects in neutrino
oscillations and leptogenesis, and second, the case of quasi-degenerate
neutrino mass spectrum.
Host: J. Feng