Naturally Large Cosmological Neutrino Asymmetries in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

A large neutrino asymmetry could have significant observable consequences for nucleosynthesis and the cosmic microwave background. If the baryon asymmetry originates via the Affleck-Dine mechanism along a d0ex{0ex}=0ex{0ex}4 flat direction of the scalar potential in the minimal supersymmetric standard model and if the lepton asymmetry originates via Affleck-Dine leptogenesis along a d0ex{0ex}=0ex{0ex}6 direction, corresponding to the lowest dimension directions conserving R parity, then the ratio n₋/n₁ is naturally in the range 10^8--10^9. As a result, a potentially observable neutrino asymmetry is correlated with a baryon asymmetry of the order of 10^-10.