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Affleck-Dine leptogenesis with an ultralight neutrino

Affleck-Dine leptogenesis with an ultralight neutrino

We perform a detailed analysis on Affleck-Dine leptogenesis taking into account the thermal effects on the dynamics of the flat direction field $\phi$. We find that an extremely small mass for the lightest neutrino $\nu_1$, ${m_\nu}_1\lsim 10^{-8}$ eV, is required to produce enough lepton-number asymmetry to explain the baryon asymmetry …