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The Neutrino Mass Window for Baryogenesis
Interactions of heavy Majorana neutrinos in the thermal phase of the early
universe may be the origin of the cosmological matter-antimatter asymmetry.
This mechanism of baryogenesis implies stringent constraints on light and heavy
Majorana neutrino masses. We derive an improved upper bound on the CP asymmetry
in heavy neutrino decays which, together with the kinetic equations, yields an
upper bound on all light neutrino masses of 0.1 eV. Lepton number changing
processes at temperatures above the temperature T_B of baryogenesis can erase
other, pre-existing contributions to the baryon asymmetry. We find that these
washout processes become very efficient if the effective neutrino mass
\tilde{m}_1 is larger than m_* \simeq 10^{-3} eV. All memory of the initial
conditions is then erased. Hence, for neutrino masses in the range from (\Delta
m^2_sol)^{1/2} \simeq 8*10^{-3} eV to (\Delta m^2_atm)^{1/2} \simeq 5*10^{-2}
eV, which is suggested by neutrino oscillations, leptogenesis emerges as the
unique source of the cosmological matter-antimatter asymmetry.Comment: 29 pages, 12 figures include
Some Aspects of Thermal Leptogenesis
Properties of neutrinos may be the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry
of the universe. In the seesaw model for neutrino masses this leads to
important constraints on the properties of light and heavy neutrinos. In
particular, an upper bound on the light neutrino masses of 0.1 eV can be
derived. We review the present status of thermal leptogenesis with emphasis on
the theoretical uncertainties and discuss some implications for lepton and
quark mass hierarchies, CP violation and dark matter. We also comment on the
`leptogenesis conspiracy', the remarkable fact that neutrino masses may lie in
the range where leptogenesis works best.Comment: 23 pages, 5 figures, submitted to the Focus on Neutrino Physics issue
of the New Journal of Physics, edited by F. Halzen, M. Lindner and A. Suzuk
Cosmic Microwave Background, Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry and Neutrino Masses
We study the implications of thermal leptogenesis for neutrino parameters.
Assuming that decays of N_1, the lightest of the heavy Majorana neutrinos,
initiate baryogenesis, we show that the final baryon asymmetry is determined by
only four parameters: the CP asymmetry epsilon_1, the heavy neutrino mass M_1,
the effective light neutrino mass \tilde{m}_1, and the quadratic mean \bar{m}
of the light neutrino masses. Imposing the CMB measurement of the baryon
asymmetry as constraint on the neutrino parameters, we show, in a model
independent way, that quasi-degenerate neutrinos are incompatible with thermal
leptogenesis. For maximal CP asymmetry epsilon_1, and neutrino masses in the
range from (\Delta m^2_{sol})^{1/2} to (\Delta m^2_{atm})^{1/2}, the
baryogenesis temperature is T_B = O(10^{10}) GeV.Comment: 28 pages, 14 figures included; v2: erratum added, M_1 lower bound in
the strong wash-out regime (see Eq. (63)) relaxed by a factor 2/
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Evaluation of diversity gains for DVB-T systems
Copyright @ 2008 Eurescom GmbHThe requirements for future DVB-T/H
networks demand that broadcasters design and deploy networks that provide ubiquitous reception in challenging indoors and other obstructed situations. It is essential that such networks are designed costeffectively
and with minimized environmental impact.
The EC funded project PLUTO has since its start in 2006 explored the use of diversity to improve coverage in these difficult situations. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of transmit and
receive diversity gains with two antennas to improve the reception of DVB-T/H systems operating in different realistic propagation conditions through a series of tests using the Spirent dual channel emulator
Test-bed development & measurement plan for evaluating transmit diversity in DVB networks
This paper presents a test-bed development and measurement plan for evaluating transmit diversity in the DVB network. Transmit diversity reduces the complexity and improves the power consumption of the personal receiving devices by improving the transmission of signals in NLOS cluttered environments. Also, it is more practical than receive diversity due to the difficulty of locating two receive antennas far enough apart in a small mobile device. Test service scenarios were developed to illustrate the benefits of such technologies so that effectiveness can be researched in a variety of service and terrain scenarios using purpose built test systems. The laboratory tests were designed to validate the theoretical measurements from the theoretical analysis and these results will be verified by a field measurement campaign in short and long time spans
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Common fixed points for self-mappings on partial metric spaces
In this paper, we prove some results of a common fixed point for two self-mappings on partial metric spaces. Our results generalize some interesting results of Ilic et al. (Appl. Math. Lett. 24:1326-1330, 2011). We conclude with a result of the existence of a fixed point for set-valued mappings in the context of 0-complete partial metric spaces
Some fixed point results for multi-valued mappings in partial metric spaces
In this paper, we obtain some fixed point results for multi-valued mappings in partial metric spaces. Our results unify, generalize and complement various known comparable results from the current literature. An example is also included to illustrate the main result in the paper
Leptogenesis beyond the limit of hierarchical heavy neutrino masses
We calculate the baryon asymmetry of the Universe in thermal leptogenesis
beyond the usual lightest right-handed (RH) neutrino dominated scenario (N_1DS)
and in particular beyond the hierarchical limit (HL), M_1 << M_2 << M_3, for
the RH neutrino mass spectrum. After providing some orientation among the large
variety of models, we first revisit the central role of the N_1DS, with new
insights on the dynamics of the asymmetry generation and then discuss the main
routes departing from it, focusing on models beyond the HL. We study in detail
two examples of `strong-strong' wash-out scenarios: one with `maximal phase'
and the limit of very large M_3, studying the effects arising when
delta_2=(M_2-M_1)/M_1 is small. We extend analytical methods already applied to
the N_1DS showing, for example, that, in the degenerate limit (DL), the
efficiency factors of the RH neutrinos become equal with the single decay
parameter replaced by the sum. Both cases disprove the misconception that close
RH neutrino masses necessarily lead to a final asymmetry enhancement and to a
relaxation of the lower bounds on M_1 and on the initial temperature of the
radiation-dominated expansion. We also explain why leptogenesis tends to favor
normal hierarchy compared to inverted hierarchy for the left-handed neutrino
masses.Comment: 30 pages, 8 figures; corrected typo in Eq. (67); shortened
Introduction, Section 3 and Conclusions; one figure removed; added 2
references; to appear in JCA
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Measurements, processing functions and laboratory test-bed experiments for evaluating diversity in broadcast network
This paper presents a test-bed development and measurement plan for evaluating transmit diversity and on-channel repeaters in the Digital Video Broadcasting Network. Transmit diversity reduces the complexity and improves the power consumption of the personal receiving devices by enhancing the transmission of signals in NLOS cluttered environments. It is more practical than receive diversity due to the difficulty of locating two receive antennas far enough apart in a small mobile device. The on-channel repeater is to extend the coverage of the DVB-T/H network in areas where services are inaccessible by receiving the DVB-T/H signals off air, amplifying and then retransmitting it on the same frequency as received. Test service scenarios were developed to illustrate the benefits of such technologies so that effectiveness can be researched in a variety of service and terrain scenarios using purpose built test systems.The work presented in this paper was supported by the European Commission IST project PLUTO
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