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Tammi Chowdhury

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Leptogenesis and Neutrino Masses Via Pseudo-Dirac Gauginos

In a $U(1)_{R-L}$-symmetric supersymmetric model, pseudo-Dirac bino and wino can act like right-handed neutrinos, generating the light neutrino masses through a hybrid Type I + III inverse seesaw mechanism. We investigate such a model to accommodate the baryon asymmetry of the universe together with neutrino masses. A pseudo-Dirac gaugino goes under particle-antiparticle oscillations. Possible $CP$ violation in bino decays, induced by mixing with the neutrinos, can be enhanced in bino--antibino oscillations. Focusing on a long-lived bino, we show that its oscillations and decays can generate the observed baryon asymmetry while the wino is responsible for generating the neutrino masses. This mechanism requires a decoupled mass spectrum with a bino of mass $M_{\tilde{B}}\sim O({\rm TeV})$ and sfermions with mass $M_{\rm sf}\gtrsim 25$ TeV. Furthermore, for the bino to decay out-of-equilibrium before the electroweak sphalerons turn off, the messenger scale needs to be $Λ_M \sim O(10^7~ {\rm TeV})$. We discuss the displaced vertex signals at the LHC resulting from such a high messenger scale.

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Nonthermal leptogenesis via cosmological gravitational particle production is tested by inflationary gravitational waves

We explore the coincidence of scales between cosmic inflation and right-handed neutrinos in seesaw models. We show that inflation models, which will be tested by next-generation CMB experiments, can produce right-handed neutrinos in sufficient abundance to explain the observed baryon asymmetry of the universe. The model can be tested by gravitational wave signatures from cosmic inflation and particle production.

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Higgs Inflation: Particle Factory

We study cosmological gravitational particle production (CGPP) in Higgs inflation, wherein the inflaton is a scalar field with quartic self-coupling $λ$ and a nonminimal coupling to gravity $ξ$, and which may, but need not be, the Higgs boson of the Standard Model (SM). We find an explosive particle production peaked on a characteristic comoving wavenumber $k\sim ξ^{2/3} a H$ with a peak occupation number that scales with $ξ$. This new peak in production can easily dominate over the conventional (minimally coupled inflation) CGPP even for modest values of $ξ$. The results apply for a wide range of $ξ$, e.g., as low as $ξ=10$, which can be realized for the Standard Model Higgs given suitable RG flow of the quartic coupling. We discuss implications for late time relics such as dark matter.

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Neutron Lifetime Anomaly and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

We calculate the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis abundances for helium-4 and deuterium for a range of neutron lifetimes, $τ_n = 840 - 1050$ s, using the state-of-the-art Python package \textsc{PRyMordial}. We show the results for two different nuclear reaction rates, calculated by NACRE II [1] and the PRIMAT [2] collaborations.

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