Hybrid model demonstrates successful leptogenesis at low mass of singlet fermion, indicating potential for neutrino and dark matter explanations.
The scotogenic type I and type III seesaw models are good candidates to explain the existence of neutrino masses and dark matter simultaneously. However, since triplet fermions have SU(2) gauge interaction, they cannot be out of equilibrium before the electroweak symmetry breaking. Thus, leptogenesis seems to be difficult within a framework of the pure type III seesaw model. Some extension seems to be required to solve this fault. A model extended by introducing a singlet fermion could be such a simple example. If the singlet fermion is in thermal equilibrium even for its extremely small neutrino Yukawa coupling, leptogenesis could be shown to occur successfully for a rather low mass of the singlet fermion. The required mass could be lowered to 104 GeV.
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