Neutrino mass from neutrinophilic Higgs and leptogenesis

Abstract

In a class of two Higgs doublet model, where one Higgs doublet generates masses of quarks and charged leptons whereas the other Higgs doublet with a tiny vacuum expectation value (VEV) generates neutrino Dirac masses, smallness of neutrino masses might be understand as the consequence of the small second Higgs VEV. In this framework, thermal leptogenesis scenarios work well at low energy scale and have several advantages as follows. Under the assumption of hierarchical right-handed neutrino masses, the lightest right-handed neutrino can be as light as ${\cal O}(10^2)$ TeV.The required degeneracy for successful resonant leptogenesis also can be significantly reduced as small as ${\cal O}(10^4)$. Availability of low scale thermal leptogenesis provides a novel solution to gravitino problem in supergravity models.