Inhomogeneous leptogenesis as the source of density perturbations

Inhomogeneous leptogenesis as the source of density perturbations

In this talk, I will examine the possibility that cosmological density perturbations are generated by the inhomogeneous decay of right-handed neutrinos during leptogenesis process. This will occur if a scalar field whose fluctuations are created during inflation is coupled to the neutrino sector. Robust predictions of the model are a detectable level of non-Gaussianity and, if standard leptogenesis is the source of the baryon asymmetry, baryon isocurvature perturbations at the level of the present experimental constraints.

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Date

21 March 2007
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Time

14h15 – 0h00

Location

Salle Claude Itzykson, Bât. 774
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