CP Violation and Lightest Neutrino Mass Effects in Thermal Leptogenesis

Abstract

Effects of the lightest neutrino mass in "flavoured" leptogenesis when the CP-violation necessary for the generation of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe is due exclusively to the Dirac and/or Majorana phases in the neutrino mixing matrix $U$ are discussed. The type I see-saw scenario with three heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos having hierarchical spectrum is considered. The "orthogonal" parametrisation of the matrix of neutrino Yukawa couplings, which involves a complex orthogonal matrix $R$, is employed. Results for light neutrino mass spectrum with normal and inverted ordering (hierarchy) are reviewed.

To appear in the proceedings of DISCRETE'08, Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries, IFIC, Valencia, Spain, 11-16 December 2008