Baryogenesis and degenerate neutrinos

Abstract

We bring the theoretical issue of whether two important cosmological demands, baryon asymmetry and degenerate neutrinos as hot dark matter, can be compatible in the context of the seesaw mechanism. To realize leptogenesis with almost degenerate Majorana neutrinos without severe fine-tuning of parameters, we propose the hybrid seesaw mechanism with a heavy Higgs triplet and right-handed neutrinos. Constructing a minimal hybrid seesaw model with SO(3) flavor symmetry for the neutrino sector, we show that the mass splittings for the atmospheric and solar neutrino oscillations which are consistent with the requirements for leptogenesis can naturally arise.