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With an emphasis on unitarity and CPT requirements, we study the inclusion of CP-violating processes in baryogenesis at next-to-leading order, particularly those involving the top Yukawa interaction in leptogenesis. We show that there are more contributions than previously considered, but also important cancellations. Some of these involve the interference of connected with disconnected diagrams. We also discuss on the application of the Kinoshita-Lee-Nauenberg theorem to treat the infrared divergences that are common at next-to-leading order. Finally, we calculate the CP asymmetry in the three-body decay of a sterile neutrino into a lepton and top quarks.
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Racker, J. Unitarity and CP violation in leptogenesis at NLO: general considerations and top Yukawa contributions. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 42 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2019)042
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