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We estimate the Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe (BAU) arising from leptogenesis within a class of minimal predictive seesaw models involving two right-handed neutrinos and simple Yukawa structures with one texture zero. The two right-handed neutrinos are dominantly responsible for the “atmospheric” and “solar” neutrino masses with Yukawa couplings to (ν e , ν μ , ν τ ) proportional to (0, 1, 1) and (1, n, n − 2), respectively, where n is a positive integer. The neutrino Yukawa matrix is therefore characterised by two proportionality constants with their relative phase providing a leptogenesis-PMNS link, enabling the lightest right-handed neutrino mass to be determined from neutrino data and the observed BAU. We discuss an SU(5) SUSY GUT example, where A 4 vacuum alignment provides the required Yukawa structures with n = 3, while a \( {\mathrm{\mathbb{Z}}}_9 \) symmetry fixes the relatives phase to be a ninth root of unity.
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Björkeroth, F., de Anda, F.J., de Medeiros Varzielas, I. et al. Leptogenesis in minimal predictive seesaw models. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 104 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2015)104
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