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We explore the connection between low-scale CP-violating Dirac phase (δ) and high-scale leptogenesis in a Left-Right Symmetric Model (LRSM) with scalar bidoublet and doublets. The fermion sector of the model is extended with one sterile neutrino (SL) per generation to implement a double seesaw mechanism in the neutral fermion mass matrix. The double seesaw is performed via the implementation of type-I seesaw twice. The first seesaw facilitates the generation of Majorana mass term for heavy right-handed (RH) neutrinos (NR), and the light neutrino mass becomes linearly dependent on SL mass in the second. In our framework, we have taken charge conjugation (C) as the discrete left-right (LR) symmetry. This choice assists in deriving the Dirac neutrino mass matrix (MD) in terms of the light and heavy RH neutrino masses and light neutrino mixing matrix UPMNS (containing δ). We illustrate the viability of unflavored thermal leptogenesis via the decay of RH neutrinos by using the obtained MD with the masses of RH neutrinos as input parameters. A complete analysis of the Boltzmann equations describing the asymmetry evolution is performed in the unflavored regime, and it is shown that with or without Majorana phases, the CP-violating Dirac phase is sufficient to produce the required asymmetry in the leptonic sector within this framework for a given choice of input parameters. Finally, we comment on the possibility of constraining our model with the current and near-future oscillation experiments, which are aimed at refining the value of δ.
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Utkarsh Patel (UP) and Pratik Adarsh (PA) would like to acknowledge the financial support obtained from the Ministry of Education, Government of India. Purushottam Sahu (PS) would like to acknowledge the Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship of IIT Bombay for financial support. PS also acknowledges the support from the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) under the “ICTP Sandwich Training Educational Programme (STEP)” SMR.3676 and SMR.3799, where part of the analysis was performed during his stay. We also thank Dr. Alessandro Granelli for his valuable insights and comments on the implications of our framework.
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Patel, U., Adarsh, P., Patra, S. et al. Leptogenesis in a Left-Right Symmetric Model with double seesaw. J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 29 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2024)029
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