Probing flavored regimes of leptogenesis with gravitational waves from cosmic strings

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Cosmic strings radiate detectable gravitational waves in models featuring high-scale symmetry breaking, e.g., high-scale leptogenesis. In this Letter, for the first time, we show that different flavored regimes of high-scale leptogenesis can be tested with the spectral features in cosmic string-radiated gravitational waves. This is possible if the scalar field that makes right-handed neutrinos massive is feebly coupled to the Standard Model Higgs. Each flavored regime, sensitive to low-energy neutrino experiments, leaves a marked imprint on the gravitational waves spectrum. A three-flavor and a two-flavor regime could be probed by a characteristic fall-off of the gravitational wave spectrum at the LISA-DECIGO-ET frequency bands with preceding scale-invariant amplitudes bounded from above and below. We present gravitational waves windows for flavored regimes of leptogenesis testable in the upcoming experiments. We also provide the first construction of a leptogenesis framework where a testable distinction of flavor regimes is possible without constraining the flavor structure of the theory.
Funding Information
  • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Padova
  • Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (2022E2J4RK)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (12150610460)

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