Leptogenesis in minimal predictive seesaw models

Abstract

Abstract: We estimate the Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe (BAU) arising from leptogenesis within a class of minimal predictive seesaw models involving two right-handed neutrinos and simple Yukawa structures with one texture zero. The two right-handed neutrinos are dominantly responsible for the “atmospheric” and “solar” neutrino masses with Yukawa couplings to (νe, νμ, ντ) proportional to (0, 1, 1) and (1, n, n − 2), respectively, where n is a positive integer. The neutrino Yukawa matrix is therefore characterised by two proportionality constants with their relative phase providing a leptogenesis-PMNS link, enabling the lightest right-handed neutrino mass to be determined from neutrino data and the observed BAU. We discuss an SU(5) SUSY GUT example, where A4 vacuum alignment provides the required Yukawa structures with n = 3, while a ℤ9$$ {\mathrm{\mathbb{Z}}}_9 $$ symmetry fixes the relatives phase to be a ninth root of unity.