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Dirac phase leptogenesis
I present here a concise summary of the preprint arXiv:0707.3024, written in
collaboration with A. Anisimov and P. Di Bari. There we discuss leptogenesis
when {\em CP} violation stems exlusively from the Dirac phase in the PMNS
mixing matrix. Under this assumption it turns out that the situation is very
constrained when a hierarchical heavy right-handed (RH) neutrino spectrum is
considered: the allowed regions are small and the final asymmetry depends on
the initial conditions. On the other hand, for a quasi-degenerate spectrum of
RH neutrinos, the {\em CP} asymmetry can be enhanced and the situation becomes
much more favorable, with no dependence on the initial conditions.
Interestingly, in the extreme case of resonant leptogenesis, in order to match
the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe, we obtain a lower bound on \sin
\q_{13} which depends on the lightest active neutrino mass m_1.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the TAUP 07
conference, Sep. 11-15, Sendai, Japa
Shear Viscosity of Quark Matter
We consider the shear viscosity of a system of quarks and its ratio to the
entropy density above the critical temperature for deconfinement. Both
quantities are derived and computed for different modeling of the quark
self-energy, also allowing for a temperature dependence of the effective mass
and width. The behaviour of the viscosity and the entropy density is argued in
terms of the strength of the coupling and of the main characteristics of the
quark self-energy. A comparison with existing results is also discussed.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figure
Supersymmetric Leptogenesis
We study leptogenesis in the supersymmetric standard model plus the seesaw.
We identify important qualitative differences that characterize supersymmetric
leptogenesis with respect to the non-supersymmetric case. The lepton number
asymmetries in fermions and scalars do not equilibrate, and are related via a
non-vanishing gaugino chemical potential. Due to the presence of new anomalous
symmetries, electroweak sphalerons couple to winos and higgsinos, and QCD
sphalerons couple to gluinos, thus modifying the corresponding chemical
equilibrium conditions. A new constraint on particles chemical potentials
corresponding to an exactly conserved -charge, that also involves the number
density asymmetry of the heavy sneutrinos, appears. These new ingredients
determine the matrices that mix up the density asymmetries of the
lepton flavours and of the heavy sneutrinos. We explain why in all temperature
ranges the particle thermodynamic system is characterized by the same number of
independent quantities. Numerical differences with respect to usual treatment
remain at the level.Comment: 30 pages, 2 figures. Typos corrected, one reference added. Version
published in JCA
Leptogenesis without violation of B-L
We study the possibility of generating the observed baryon asymmetry via
leptogenesis in the decay of heavy Standard Model singlet fermions which carry
lepton number, in a framework without Majorana masses above the electroweak
scale. Such scenario does not contain any source of total lepton number
violation besides the Standard Model sphalerons, and the baryon asymmetry is
generated by the interplay of lepton flavour effects and the sphaleron
decoupling in the decay epoch.Comment: V2 (published version): 21 pages, 4 figures. Some explanations have
been adde
Study on TIME Efficiency of Tuna (Thunnus SP) Catches Landing Toward Mooring TIME of the Long Liner at Fishing Port of Bungus, West Sumatera Province
A series survey activity was conducted on April-Mei 2013 at the fishing port Bungus,Padang city West Sumatera province. Purpose of this study is to know efficiency level of longliner fishing catches, which has been landed in fishing port and its factor influenced. The resultshow that the efficiency level of fishing catches landing time was 56.98-72.73%, with uploadingefficiency time was 64,65% in average. There is seven free variable influence on the timeefficiency of fishing landing, with the value r=0,836 and R2=83,6%. So the diversity ofindependent variable gives the contribution to the diversity assess of time efficiency as 83,6%
Minimal Lepton Flavour Violation and Leptogenesis with exclusively low-energy CP Violation
We study the implications of a successful leptogenesis within the framework
of Minimal Lepton Flavour Violation combined with radiative resonant
leptogenesis and the PMNS matrix being the only source of CP violation, which
can be obtained provided flavour effects are taken into account. We find that
the right amount of the baryon asymmetry of the universe can be generated under
the conditions of a normal hierarchy of the light neutrino masses, a
non-vanishing Majorana phase, sin(theta_{13})>0.13 and m_{nu,lightest}<0.04 eV.
If this is fulfilled, we find strong correlations among ratios of charged LFV
processes.Comment: published in JHEP, small change
Full Boltzmann equations for leptogenesis including scattering
We study the evolution of a cosmological baryon asymmetry produced via
leptogenesis by means of the full classical Boltzmann equations, without the
assumption of kinetic equilibrium and including all quantum statistical
factors. Beginning with the full mode equations we derive the usual equations
of motion for the right-handed neutrino number density and integrated lepton
asymmetry, and show explicitly the impact of each assumption on these
quantities. For the first time, we investigate also the effects of scattering
of the right-handed neutrino with the top quark to leading order in the Yukawa
couplings by means of the full Boltzmann equations. We find that in our full
Boltzmann treatment the final lepton asymmetry can be suppressed by as much as
a factor of 1.5 in the weak wash-out regime (K<1), compared to the usual
integrated approach which assumes kinetic equilibrium and neglects quantum
statistics. This suppression is in contrast with the enhancement seen in some
previous studies that considered only decay and inverse decay of the
right-handed neutrino. However, this suppression quickly decreases as we
increase K. In the strong wash-out regime (K>1), the full Boltzmann treatment
and the integrated approach give nearly identical final lepton asymmetries
(within 10 % of each other at K>3). Finally, we show that the opposing effects
of quantum statistics on decays/inverse decays and the scattering processes
tend to reduce the net importance of scattering on leptogenesis in the full
treatment compared to the integrated approach.Comment: 39 pages, 8 figures, typos corrected, replaced to match published
versio
Leptogenesis with exclusively low-energy CP Violation in the Context of Minimal Lepton Flavour Violation
We analyze lepton flavour violation (LFV) and the generation of the observed
baryon-antibaryon asymmetry of the Universe (BAU) within a generalized minimal
lepton flavour violation framework with three quasi-degenerate heavy Majorana
neutrinos. The BAU which is obtained through radiative resonant leptogenesis
can successfully be generated widely independent of the Majorana scale in this
scenario and flavour effects are found to be relevant. Then we discuss the
specific case in which CP violation is exclusively present at low-energies (a
real R matrix) in the flavour sensitive temperature regime. Successful
leptogenesis in this case leads to strong constraints on low-energy neutrino
parameters.Comment: Contrubution to the proceedings of the EPS HEP 2007 conference,
Manchester (UK). 3 pages, 3 figure
On fast CP violating interactions in leptogenesis
We show that when the relevant CP violating interactions in leptogenesis are
fast, the different matter density asymmetries are determined at each instant
by a balance condition between the amount of asymmetry being created and
destroyed. This fact allows to understand in a simple way many features of
leptogenesis in the strong washout regime. In particular, we find some
non-trivial effects of flavour changing interactions that conserve lepton
number, which are specially relevant in models for leptogenesis that rely
heavily on flavour effects.Comment: V2: To match published version in JCAP. Minor changes, including one
figure, with respect to V1. 17 pages, 4 figure
Delay performance in random-access grid networks
We examine the impact of torpid mixing and meta-stability issues on the delay
performance in wireless random-access networks. Focusing on regular meshes as
prototypical scenarios, we show that the mean delays in an toric
grid with normalized load are of the order . This
superlinear delay scaling is to be contrasted with the usual linear growth of
the order in conventional queueing networks. The intuitive
explanation for the poor delay characteristics is that (i) high load requires a
high activity factor, (ii) a high activity factor implies extremely slow
transitions between dominant activity states, and (iii) slow transitions cause
starvation and hence excessively long queues and delays. Our proof method
combines both renewal and conductance arguments. A critical ingredient in
quantifying the long transition times is the derivation of the communication
height of the uniformized Markov chain associated with the activity process. We
also discuss connections with Glauber dynamics, conductance and mixing times.
Our proof framework can be applied to other topologies as well, and is also
relevant for the hard-core model in statistical physics and the sampling from
independent sets using single-site update Markov chains
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