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We explore the possibility of embedding thermal leptogenesis within a first-order phase transition (FOPT) such that RHNs remain massless until a FOPT arises. Their sudden and violent mass gain allows the neutrinos to become thermally decoupled, and the lepton asymmetry generated from their decay can be, in principle, free from the strong wash-out processes that conventional leptogenesis scenarios suffer from, albeit at the cost of new washout channels. To quantify the effect of this enhancement, we consider a simple setup of a classically scale-invariant B − L potential, which requires three RHNs with similar mass scales, in the “strong-washout” regime of thermal leptogenesis. Here we find that parameter space which requires MN ~ 1011 GeV without bubble assistance is now predicted at MN ~ 5 × 109 GeV suggesting a sizeable reduction from bubble effects. We numerically quantify to what extent such a framework can alleviate strong-washout effects and we find the lower bound on the RHN mass, MN ~ 107 GeV, below which bubble-assisted leptogenesis cannot provide an enhancement. We also study the signature possibly observable at GW terrestrial interferometers and conclude that bubble-assisted leptogenesis models with relatively light masses, MN ≲ 5 × 109 GeV may be probable.
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MV and XN are supported by the “Excellence of Science - EOS” - be.h project n.30820817, and by the Strategic Research Program High-Energy Physics of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and would like to thank Giulio Barni, Aleksandr Azatov, Wen Yin, Marco Drewes, Iason Baldes and Alberto Mariotti for insightful discussions and useful comments on the draft. TPD is supported by KIAS Individual Grants under Grant No. PG084101 at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study. This work was supported by IBS under the project code, IBS-R018-D1. We would like to thank as well the organizers of the IPMN event “what the heck occurs when the universe boils”, where this project was initiated.
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Chun, E.J., Dutka, T.P., Jung, T.H. et al. Bubble-assisted leptogenesis. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 164 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2023)164
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