3 research outputs found
Non-thermal leptogenesis with strongly hierarchical right handed neutrinos
Assuming the Dirac-type neutrino masses m_D are related to quark or charged
lepton masses, neutrino oscillation data indicate that right handed neutrino
masses are in general strongly hierarchical. In particular, if m_D is similar
to the up-type quark masses, the mass of the lightest right handed neutrino
M_1<~10^6 GeV. We show that non-thermal leptogenesis by inflaton decay can
yield sufficient baryon asymmetry despite this constraint, and discuss how the
asymmetry is correlated with the low energy neutrino masses and CP-violating
phases.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures. v2: added some comments and references, v3: minor
corrections and additions, v4: a typo corrected, published versio
Chaotic inflation, radiative corrections and precision cosmology
We employ chaotic (phi^2 and phi^4) inflation to illustrate the important
role radiative corrections can play during the inflationary phase. Yukawa
interactions of phi, in particular, lead to corrections of the form -kappa
phi^4 ln(phi/mu), where kappa>0 and mu is a renormalization scale. For
instance, phi^4 chaotic inflation with radiative corrections looks compatible
with the most recent WMAP (5 year) analysis, in sharp contrast to the tree
level case. We obtain the 95% confidence limits 2.4x10^-14<~kappa<~5.7x10^-14,
0.931<~n_s<~0.958 and 0.038<~r<~0.205, where n_s and r respectively denote the
scalar spectral index and scalar to tensor ratio. The limits for phi^2
inflation are kappa<~7.7x10^-15, 0.929<~n_s<~0.966 and 0.023<~r<~0.135. The
next round of precision experiments should provide a more stringent test of
realistic chaotic phi^2 and phi^4 inflation.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables. v2: added comments and references. v3:
changed title, published versio
Unparticle physics with broken scale invariance
If scale invariance is exact, unparticles are unlikely to be probed in
colliders since there are stringent constraints from astrophysics and
cosmology. However these constraints are inapplicable if scale invariance is
broken at a scale mu >~ 1 GeV. The case 1 GeV <~ mu < M_Z is particularly
interesting since it allows unparticles to be probed at and below the Z pole.
We show that mu can naturally be in this range if only vector unparticles
exist, and briefly remark on implications for Higgs phenomenology. We then
obtain constraints on unparticle parameters from e+ e- -> mu+ mu- cross-section
and forward-backward asymmetry data, and compare with the constraints from
mono-photon production and the Z hadronic width.Comment: 19 pages, 8 figures, 2 table