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Front. Phys., 05 May 2022

Sec. High-Energy and Astroparticle Physics

Volume 10 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2022.854595

Linear Seesaw in Modular Symmetry With Leptogenesis

  • School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

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Abstract

In this study, we investigate the implication of modular symmetry on neutrino oscillation phenomenology in the linear seesaw framework. In order to achieve the well-defined mass structure for the light active neutrinos as dictated by the linear seesaw mechanism, we introduce six heavy fermion fields along with a pair of weightons to retain the holomorphic nature of the superpotential. The notable feature of modular symmetry is that it reduces the usage of flavon fields significantly. In addition, the Yukawa couplings transform non-trivially under the flavor symmetry group and are expressed in terms of the Dedekind eta functions, the q expansion of which renders numerical simplicity in calculations. We demonstrate that the model framework diligently accommodates all the neutrino oscillation data. Alongside, we also investigate the effect of CP asymmetry generated from the decay of lightest heavy fermions to explain the observed baryon asymmetry through the phenomenon of leptogenesis.

1 Introduction

There are several unsolved knots in the realm of particle physics, for example, the baryon asymmetry of the universe, the dark matter content, the origin of neutrino masses and mixing, and the understanding of these issues is one of the prime objectives of the present-day research. In the last couple of decades, several diligent attempts have been made towards comprehending and resolving the issue of the dynamical origin of fermion masses and their mixing. The present scenario has taken us a few steps ahead in terms of getting a convincing explanation of the origin of mass through the Higgs mechanism while being within the domain of the standard model (SM). However, it does not provide proper grounds to explain the origin of the observed neutrino masses and their mixing. Rather, very diverse approaches are made in order to gain an insightful resolution toward the aforementioned existing problems, and obviously, the answer lies in going beyond standard model (BSM) physics. It should be emphasized that certain well-defined patterns are observed in quark masses and mixing, the appreciation of which is still an enigma. Nonetheless, there is ample amount of research work present, which makes an attempt to grasp their fundamental origin. In addition, perplexity to the problem has increased due to the observation of the neutrino masses and their sizeable mixing. The reason is the order of magnitude of the observed neutrino masses are approximately twelve orders smaller than that of the EW scale. Also, there is an immense difference in the pattern of leptonic and quark mixings, with the former having large mixing angles and the latter having smaller mixing angles. Numerous experiments [14] have confirmed the tininess of the neutrino mass and other parameters with high accuracy. The best-fit values of the neutrino oscillation parameters are furnished in References [5, 6].

It is well-known that in the SM framework, the neutrino mass generation cannot be explained through the standard Higgs mechanism due to the absence of the right-handed (RH) components. Still, if we could manage to add the RH neutrinos into SM by hand and allow Dirac mass terms, the values of the required Yukawa couplings would be around , which appear aberrant. In contrast, there exist many BSM scenarios that help generate tiny neutrino masses through the conventional seesaw mechanism. Some of the prominent seesaw mechanisms are categorized as type I [710], type II [1116], and type III [1722], and all of them require additional heavy fermions or scalars beyond the SM particle content. Literature survey shows there are many flavor symmetries either discrete A4 [2325], S3 [2629], S4 [3032], etc. or continuous U(1)BL [3337], U(1)H [3840], [41, 42], etc., which can generate the tiny neutrino masses and also accommodate the observed neutrino oscillation data with the help of some additional scalars and perturbation (wherever required). As aforesaid, the inclusion of flavons affects the neatness of the model, and the predictability of the model is hampered because of the higher dimensional operators. These drawbacks can be eliminated through the recent approach of modular symmetry [4365], where the Yukawa couplings transform non-trivially under the discrete flavor symmetry group and have a certain modular weight.

The modular group is a new and promising candidate, which corresponds to the specific case of N = 5. People have done extensive research on the basic properties of this finite group [6668], so here we mention only the important points regarding modular symmetry. The group consists of 120 elements, which are likely to be produced by the generators S, T, and R gratifying the identities for N = 5 [69]. So, categorization of these 120 elements are done into nine conjugacy classes which are represented by nine well-defined irreducible representations, symbolized as 1, , , 3, 3′, 4, , 5, and . Additionally, the conjugacy classes and character table of , as well as the representation matrices of all three generators S, T, and R, are presented in Supplementary Appendix [69]. It ought to be noticed that the 1, 3, 3′, 4, and 5 representations with coincide with those for A5, while , , , and are unique for with . As we are working in the modular space of γ(5), its dimension is 5k + 1, where k is the modular weight. A brief discussion concerning the modular space of γ( 5) is presented in Supplementary Appendix SA. For k = 1, the modular space M1 [Γ(5)] will have six basis vectors, that is, (, where i = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), whose q-expansion are given in the following, and they are used in expressing the Yukawa coupling , as shown in Supplementary Appendix SB:where qe2iπτ, with τ as a complex modulus parameter. The significance of the modulus τ is that the modular group Γ is generated by performing the linear fractional transformation on τ as follows:Our aim is to utilize the expediency of modular symmetry by employing it to the linear seesaw mechanism in the context of supersymmetry as we are quite familiar with the dynamics of TeV-scale seesaw frameworks from numerous [70, 71] studies. The deciding factor whether it will be linear seesaw or inverse seesaw is the position of the zero elements in the mass matrix under the basis of (ν, , ). It is quite evident when 11 and 33 elements of the mass matrix are zero; it gives the structure of a linear seesaw. As mentioned before, the introduction of three left-handed neutral fermion superfields alongside three-right handed ones validates and produces the neutrino mass matrix structure of a linear seesaw, which is intricate enough, and has been studied in the context of discrete A4 flavor symmetry in [7274]. In this work, we are implementing it under modular symmetry. For this purpose, the heavy fermions SLi and NRi are assigned as 3′ under symmetry, and the modular form of the Yukawa couplings leads to a constrained structure. After that, we perform the numerical analysis to look for the region which is acceptable in order to fit the neutrino data. Hence, prediction for the neutrino sector is done after fixing the allowed parameter space.

The structure of this article is as follows. In Section 2, we discuss the layout of the familiar linear seesaw framework with modular symmetry and its alluring feature, which leads to a simple mass structure for the charged leptons and neutral leptons, utilizing the product rules of symmetry. We thereafter briefly discuss the phenomena of light neutrino masses and mixing in this framework. The numerical analysis pertaining to different observables of the neutrino sector and the input model parameters is presented in Section 3. We also briefly comment on the non-unitarity effect in Section 4. The discussion on leptogenesis within the context of the proposed model is furnished in Section 5, and our results are summarized in Section 6.

2 Model Framework

Here, we have built a model under a linear seesaw scenario in the context of supersymmetry (SUSY), where Table 1 expresses the particle content and their respective group charges. For exploring the neutrino sector beyond standard model (BSM), we extend it with the discrete modular symmetry and a local U(1)BL gauge symmetry. However, the local U(1)BL becomes the auxiliary symmetry, which has been added to avoid certain undesirable terms in the superpotential. The advantage of using BSM is that we can add right-handed neutrinos and extra fields, and hence, we have included three extra right-handed SM singlet superfields (NRi), three left-handed singlet superfields (SLi), and a pair weightons (ζ, ζ′) in the particle gamut. The transformation of extra added superfields is taken as 3′ under the modular group. The and U(1)BL symmetries are broken at a very high scale, much greater than the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking [75]. Mass acquisition by the extra singlet superfields is done by allocating non-zero vacuum expectation values (VEVs) to the weightons ζ and ζ′. The modular weight assigned to various particles is denoted by kI. One of the significant points of introducing the modular symmetry is the curtailment of flavon (weighton) fields, which otherwise are traditionally required while using BSM with discrete symmetries, since the Yukawa couplings have non-trivial group transformation under the modular symmetry group, and their transformation are present in [69].

TABLE 1

FieldLLSLHu,dζζ
SU(2)L111211211
U(1)Y1110000
U(1)BL111−11001-1
11133′3′111
kI135114011

Particle spectrum and their charges under the symmetry groups , while kI represents the modular weight.

The complete superpotential is given as follows:where , , kY = (2, 4, 6), and , , and represent the coupling strengths of various interaction terms.

2.1 Mass Terms for the Charged Leptons (M)

In order to have a clear and simplified structure for the charged lepton mass matrix, we consider the three families of left-handed lepton doublets (LL) to transform as 3 under the symmetry with U(1)BL charge −1. The right-handed charged leptons transform as singlets under symmetry and have U(1)BL charge +1. However, , , and are given the modular weight as 1, 3, and 5, respectively. The Higgsinos Hu,d are given charges 0 and 1 under the U(1)BL and symmetries with zero modular weights. The VEVs of these Higgsinos Hu and Hd are given as and , respectively. Moreover, Higgsinos VEVs are associated to SM Higgs VEV as , and the ratio of their VEVs is expressed as tan β = (vu/vd); we use its value as 5 in our analysis. The relevant superpotential terms for charged leptons obtained from Eq. 3 are given as follows:In the modular group, its Kronecker product (as provided in Supplementary Appendix SC) leaves us with a non-diagonal charged lepton mass matrix after the spontaneous symmetry breaking. The mass matrix takes the following form:The charged lepton mass matrix Ml can be diagonalized by the unitary matrix Ul, resulting in the physical masses me, mμ, and mτ as follows:In addition, it also satisfies the following identities, which will be used for numerical analysis in Section 3:

2.2 Dirac and Pseudo-Dirac Mass Terms for the Light Neutrinos

In addition to lepton doublets transformation, hitherto, the heavy fermion superfields, that is, , transform as triplet 3′ under the modular group with U(1)BL charge of −1 (0) along with modular weight 1 (4), respectively. As discussed in Ref. [69], the choice of Yukawa couplings depends on the equation , where kY is the modular weight of Yukawa couplings and is the sum of the modular weights of all other particles present in the definition of superpotential terms. These Yukawa couplings are expressed in terms of Dedekind eta function η(τ) and thus have q-expansion forms, in order to avoid the complexity in calculations. The relevant superpotential term involving the active and right-handed neutrinos can be expressed as follows:where GD is the diagonal matrix containing the free parameters and the modular weight of the Yukawa coupling is equal to the sum of the modular weights of all other particles present in Eq. 8. The choice of the Yukawa coupling is made based on the Kronecker product rules for modular symmetry such that superpotential remains invariant. The resulting Dirac neutrino mass matrix is found to be as follows:As the transformation of the sterile fermion superfield SL is same as NR under modular symmetry, it allows us to define a pseudo-Dirac mass term for the light neutrinos, and the corresponding interaction superpotential is expressed as follows:where GLS is a diagonal matrix containing three free parameters and the choice of Yukawa coupling depends on the idea of keeping the superpotential singlet. Thus, we obtain the structure for the pseudo-Dirac neutrino mass matrix of the following form:

2.3 Mixing Between the Heavy Fermions NRi and SLi

Introduction of extra symmetries helps to allow the mixing of heavy superfields but forbids the usual Majorana mass terms. Hence, we exhibit the mixing of these extra superfields, that is, (NR, SL) as follows:where is the free parameter and is the VEV of ζ′, and the superpotential is singlet under the modular symmetry product rule. Thus, considering vζvζ, one can obtain the mass matrix as follows:The masses for the heavy superfields can be found in the basis asHence, one can have three doubly degenerate mass eigenstates for the heavy superfields upon diagonalization.

2.4 Linear Seesaw Framework for the Light Neutrino Masses

In the present scenario of modular symmetry, the light neutrino masses can be generated in the framework of linear seesaw. Thus, the mass matrix in the flavor basis of can be manifested asThe mass formula for the light neutrinos in the framework of linear seesaw is governed by the assumption that MRSMD, MLS and is given as follows:In addition to the light neutrino masses, other related parameters in the leptonic sector are the Jarlskog invariant, which signifies the measure of CP violation and the effective neutrino mass parameter mee that plays a key role in the neutrinoless double beta decay process. These parameters can be obtained from the PMNS matrix elements through the following relations:Tremendous experimental efforts are being undertaken to measure the effective Majorana mass parameter mee, and it is expected to be measured by the KamLAND-Zen experiment in the near future [76].

3 Numerical Analysis

For numerical analysis, we use the neutrino oscillation parameters from the global-fit results [7779] obtained from various experiments, as given in Table 2. The numerical diagonalization of the light neutrino mass matrix given in Eq. 16 is done through , where and Uν is an unitary matrix. Thus, the lepton mixing matrix is given as , from which the mixing angles can be excerpted using the standard relations:To fit to the current neutrino oscillation data, we use the following ranges for the model parameters:The input parameters are varied randomly in the ranges as provided in Eq. 20 and constrained by imposing the 3σ bounds on neutrino oscillation data, that is, the solar and atmospheric mass-squared differences and the mixing angles, as presented in Table 2, as well as the sum of active neutrino masses Σmi < 0.12 eV [80, 81]. The typical range of the modulus τ is found to be: 0 ≲ Re [τ] ≲ 0.5 and 1 ≲ Im [τ] ≲ 3 for normal ordered neutrino masses. In Figure 1, we show the variation of the sum of active neutrino masses (Σmi) with the reactor mixing angle sin2θ13 in the left panel, while the right panel demonstrates Σmi versus sin2θ12 and sin2θ23. From these figures, it can be observed that the model predictions for the sum of neutrino masses as 0.058 eV ≤ Σmi ≤ 0.062 eV for the allowed 3σ ranges of the mixing angles.

TABLE 2

Oscillation parameterBest fit ± 1σ2σ Range3σ Range
7.56 ± 0.197.20–7.957.05–8.14
(NO)2.55 ± 0.042.47–2.632.43–2.67
sin2θ12/10–12.89–3.592.73–3.79
sin2θ23/10–1 (NO), 3.98–4.78 & 5.60–6.173.84–6.35
4.09–4.42 & 5.61–6.273.89–4.88 & 5.22–6.41
sin2θ13/10–2 (NO)1.98–2.312.04–2.43
δCP/π (NO)0.84–1.420.71–1.99

Global-fit values of the oscillation parameters along with their 1σ, 2σ, and 3σ ranges [7779].

FIGURE 1

FIGURE 1

Left (right) panel displays the correlation between sin2θ13 (sin2θ12 and sin2θ23) with the sum of active neutrino masses. The vertical lines represent 3σ allowed ranges of the mixing angles.

The variation of the effective neutrinoless double beta decay mass parameter mee with Σmi is displayed in Figure 2, from which the upper limit on mee is found to be 0.025 eV satisfying KamLAND-Zen bound. Furthermore, we display the variation of δCP and JCP in the left and right panels of Figure 3, respectively, where 100° ≤ δCP ≤ 250° and |JCP| ≤ 0.004.

FIGURE 2

FIGURE 2

Correlation plot between the effective neutrino mass mee of neutrinoless double beta decay and the sum of active neutrino masses.

FIGURE 3

FIGURE 3

Left (right) panel shows the plot of δCP (JCP) with sin2θ13 within its 3σ bound.

4 Comment on Non-Unitarity of Leptonic Mixing Matrix

Here, we present a brief discussion on the non-unitarity of the neutrino mixing matrix in the context of the present model. Due to the mixing between the light and heavy fermions, there will be a small deviation from the unitarity of the leptonic mixing matrix, which can be expressed as follows [82]:Here, UPMNS denotes the leptonic mixing matrix that diagonalizes the light neutrino mass matrix and F represents the mixing of active neutrinos with the heavy fermions, approximated as , and is a Hermitian matrix. The local constraints on the non-unitarity parameters [8385] are obtained through various experimental results on electroweak parameters, for example, the mass of W boson (MW), the Weinberg mixing angle (θW), several ratios of fermionic Z boson decays as well as its invisible decay, bounds from CKM unitarity, and lepton flavor violations. In the context of the present model, we presume the following approximated normalized order for the Dirac, pseudo-Dirac, and heavy fermion masses for correctly generating the observed solar and atmospheric mass-squared differences, as well as the sum of active neutrino masses of desired order as follows:With these chosen order masses, we obtain an approximated non-unitary mixing for the present model as follows:As the mixing between the active light and heavy fermions in our model is quite small, it leads to a negligible contribution for the non-unitarity.

5 Leptogenesis

The present universe is clearly seen to be baryon-dominated, with the ratio of the measured over-abundance of baryons over anti-baryons to the entropy density is found to beIf the universe had started from an initially symmetric state of baryons and antibaryons, the following three conditions have to be fulfilled for generating a non-zero baryon asymmetry. According to Sakharov [86], the three criteria are Baryon number violation, C and CP violation, and departure from equilibrium during the evolution of the universe. Although the SM assures all these criteria for an expanding universe are akin to ours, the extent of CP violation found in the SM is quite small to accommodate the observed baryon asymmetry of the universe. Therefore, additional sources of CP violation are absolutely essential for explaining this asymmetry. The most common new sources of CP violation possibly could arise in the lepton sector, which is however not yet firmly established experimentally. Leptogenesis is the phenomenon that furnishes a minimal setup to correlate the CP violation in the lepton sector to the observed baryon asymmetry, as well as imposes indirect constraints on the CP phases from the requirement that it would yield the correct baryon asymmetry. It is seen that the scale of CP asymmetry generated from the heavy neutral fermion decays can come down to as low as TeV [8790] due to resonant enhancement. However, the present scenario is realized by involving six heavy states, which comprise three pairs of heavy neutrinos with doubly degenerate masses (Eq. 14). Nevertheless, introduction of higher dimensional mass terms for the Majorana fermions (NR) can be made through the following superpotential:which gives rise to a petty mass splitting between the heavy neutral fermions and hence provides an enhancement in the CP asymmetry for generating the required lepton asymmetry [91, 92]. Thus, from Eq. 25, one can construct the Majorana mass matrix for the right-handed neutrinos NR as follows:The coupling GR is considered as extremely small to preserve the linear seesaw texture of the neutrino mass matrix (Eq. 15), that is, MD, MLSMR, and hence, inclusion of such additional term does not alter the previous results. However, this added term generates a small mass splitting. Hence, the 2 × 2 submatrix of Eq. 15 in the basis of (NR, SL) becomeswhich can be block diagonalized by the unitary matrix as follows:Thus, one can express the mass eigenstates (N±) in terms of the flavor states (NR, SL) as follows:Assuming the mixing to be maximal, one can haveHence, the interaction superpotential (Eq. 8) can be manifested in terms of the new basis. The mass eigenvalues of the new states N+ and N can be obtained by diagonalizing the block diagonal form of the heavy fermion masses and are found as and (Eq. 28).

The Dirac (Eq. 10) and pseudo-Dirac (Eq. 11) terms are now modified as follows:andThus, one can symbolically express the block diagonal matrix for the heavy fermions (Eq. 28) as follows:where the different matrix elements are defined as follows:One can obtain the diagonalized mass matrix from Eq. 33 through rotation to the mass eigenbasis as , and thus, three sets of nearly degenerate mass states can be obtained upon diagonalization. We further presume that the lightest pair among them with mass in the TeV range contributes predominantly to the CP asymmetry. The small mass difference between the lightest pair demonstrates that the CP asymmetry generated from the one-loop self-energy contribution of heavy particle decay dominates over the vertex part. Thus, the CP asymmetry can be expressed as follows [87, 93]:where , , and the parameters rN and are given as follows:In Figure 4, we depict the behavior of CP asymmetry with rN, which satisfies both neutrino oscillation data and the CP asymmetry required for leptogenesis [9495], which will be discussed in the next subsection.

FIGURE 4

FIGURE 4

Correlation plot demonstrating the dependence of CP asymmetry with the parameter rN.

5.1 Boltzmann Equations

Boltzmann equations are invoked to solve for the lepton asymmetry. It should be reiterated that the Sakharov criteria [86] require the decay of the parent heavy fermion which ought to be out of equilibrium for generating the lepton asymmetry. In order to implement this condition, one has to confront the Hubble rate to the decay rate as follows:Here, is the Hubble expansion rate, with g = 106.75 is the number of relativistic degrees of freedom in the thermal bath and MPl = 1.22 × 1019 GeV is the Planck mass. Coupling strength becomes the deciding factor that guarantees inverse decay does not come into thermal equilibrium. For instance, if the strength is below 10–7, it gives . The Boltzmann equations associated with the evolution of the number densities of right-handed fermion field and lepton, articulated in terms of yield parameter (ratio of number density to entropy density), are given by the following expression [9699]:where, s denotes the entropy density, and , and the equilibrium number densities are given as follows [94]:Here, K1,2 are the modified Bessel functions, g = 2 and represent the degrees of freedom of lepton and RH fermions, and γD is the decay rate and is given as follows:While γS represents the scattering rate of NNζζ [99] and γNs denotes the scattering rate of ΔL = 2 process. One can keep away the delicacy of the asymmetry being produced even when N is in thermal equilibrium by subtracting the contribution arising from on-shell N exchange: from the total rate γNs, given as [97]. The solution of Boltzmann (Eq. 39) is displayed in Figure 5. For large coupling strength, (green thick curve) almost traces (black solid curve), and the lepton asymmetry (red dashed curve) is generated. The obtained lepton asymmetry can be converted to the baryon asymmetry through the process of sphaleron transition given as follows [96]:where Nf represents the number of fermion generations and NH denotes the number of Higgs doublets. The observed baryon asymmetry can be expressed in terms of baryon to photon ratio as follows [81]:The current bound on the baryon asymmetry can be procured from the relation YB = η/7.04 as YB ∼ 8.6 × 10–11. Using the asymptotic value of as (8.77 × 10–10) from Figure 5, the obtained baryon asymmetry is .

FIGURE 5

FIGURE 5

Evolution of the yield parameters YN and as a function of .

5.2 A Note on Flavor Consideration

In leptogenesis, one flavor approximation is sufficient when (T > 1012 GeV), meaning all the Yukawa interactions are out of equilibrium. But for temperatures T ≪ 108 GeV, several charged lepton Yukawa couplings come into equilibrium, making flavor effects an important consideration for generating the final lepton asymmetry. For temperatures below 106 GeV, all the Yukawa interactions are in equilibrium and the asymmetry is stored in the individual lepton flavor. The detailed investigation of flavor effects in type I leptogenesis can be seen in myriads of studies [100105].

The Boltzmann equation for generating the lepton asymmetry in each flavor is given as follows [101]:where, (α = e, μ, τ) represents the CP asymmetry in each lepton flavor.The matrix A is given by the following expression [102]:From the benchmark considered in Table 3, we estimate the BL yield with flavor consideration in the left panel of Figure 6. It is quite obvious to notice that the enhancement in BL asymmetry is obtained in the case of flavor consideration (blue line) over the one flavor approximation (red line), as displayed in the right panel. This is because in one flavor approximation, the decay of the heavy fermion to a particular lepton flavor final state can get washed away by the inverse decays of any flavor unlike the flavored case [103].

TABLE 3

ΔM (GeV)
−1.78 × 10–5−2.6 × 10–5−4.15 × 10–5−8.53 × 10–54 × 10–6

CP asymmetries and mass splitting obtained from the allowed range of model parameters which satisfy neutrino oscillation data.

FIGURE 6

FIGURE 6

After including the flavor effects, the yield is shown in the left panel, whereas the right panel shows the enhancement in the yield due to flavor effects.

6 Summary and Conclusion

In this work, we have investigated the implications of modular symmetry on neutrino phenomenology. The important feature of modular flavor symmetry is that it reduces the complications of accommodating multiple flavons, which are usually associated with the use of discrete flavor symmetries. In the present model, we consider the SM to be extended by the modular symmetry along with a U(1)BL local gauge symmetry. It encompasses three right-handed and three left-handed heavy fermion superfields to explore the neutrino phenomenology within the context of the linear seesaw. In addition, it contains a pair of singlet weightons, which play a vital role in the spontaneous breaking of U(1)BL local symmetry and provide masses to the heavy fermions. The Yukawa couplings are considered to transform non-trivially in the modular group, which replace the role of conventional flavon fields. This, in turn, leads to a specific flavor structure for the neutrino mass matrix and helps in exploring the phenomenology of neutrino mixing. We numerically diagonalized the neutrino mass matrix to obtain the allowed regions for the model parameters, compatible with the current 3σ limit of oscillation data. Furthermore, our model predicts the CP-violating phase δCP to be in the range of (100°–250°) and the Jarlskog invariant to be . The sum of active neutrino masses is found to be in the range 0.058 eV ≤ Σmi ≤ 0.062 eV and the value of effective neutrinoless double beta decay mass parameter mee as (0.001–0.025) eV, which is quite below the current upper limits from KamLAND-Zen experiment, that is, . In addition, the flavor structure of heavy fermions gives rise to three sets of doubly degenerate mass eigenstates, and hence, to incorporate leptogenesis, we introduced a higher dimension mass term for the right-handed neutrinos for generating a small mass splitting. We then obtained a non-zero CP asymmetry from the lightest heavy fermion decay where the self-energy contribution is partially enhanced due to the small mass splitting between the two lightest heavy fermions. Utilizing a particular benchmark of model parameters consistent with oscillation data, we tackled coupled Boltzmann equations to get the evolution of lepton asymmetry at TeV scale that emerges to be of the order ≃ 10–10, which is adequate to explain the present baryon asymmetry of the universe. In addition, we have shed light on the increase in asymmetry due to flavor consideration.

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Author contributions

RM conceptualized the research and wrote the manuscript. MK contributed to the numerical analysis and wrote the manuscript.

Funding

This study was funded by the Science and Engineering Research Board, government of India (Grant No: EMR/2017/001448), and the University of Hyderabad, IoE Project (Grant No: RC1-20-012).

Acknowledgments

MK wishes to acknowledge DST for its financial help. RM acknowledges the support from SERB, government of India (Grant No. EMR/2017/001448), and the University of Hyderabad IoE project (Grant No. RC1-20-012).

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neutrino masses and mixing, linear seesaw, A5′ modular symmetry, leptogenesis, CP asymmetry

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Behera MK and Mohanta R (2022) Linear Seesaw in Modular Symmetry With Leptogenesis. Front. Phys. 10:854595. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2022.854595

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Diego Restrepo, University of Antioquia, Colombia

Roberto Martinez, National University of Colombia, Colombia

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