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Baryogenesis via Leptogenesis

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Effective Field Theories for Heavy Majorana Neutrinos in a Thermal Bath

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The Sakharov conditions were first implemented in the contest of GUTs where heavy scalar or gauge boson decays generate the imbalance between baryons and antibaryons.

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Biondini, S. (2017). Baryogenesis via Leptogenesis. In: Effective Field Theories for Heavy Majorana Neutrinos in a Thermal Bath. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63901-7_3

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