000449168 001__ 449168 000449168 005__ 20211222091555.0 000449168 0247_ $$2INSPIRETeX$$aDomcke:2020ety 000449168 0247_ $$2inspire$$ainspire:1818862 000449168 0247_ $$2arXiv$$aarXiv:2009.11678 000449168 0247_ $$2datacite_doi$$a10.3204/PUBDB-2020-03620 000449168 037__ $$aPUBDB-2020-03620 000449168 041__ $$aEnglish 000449168 088__ $$2arXiv$$aarXiv:2009.11678 000449168 088__ $$2CERN$$aCERN-TH-2020-158 000449168 088__ $$2DESY$$aDESY-20-159 000449168 1001_ $$0P:(DE-H253)PIP1013967$$aDomcke, Valerie Fiona$$b0$$eCorresponding author 000449168 245__ $$aMeV-scale Seesaw and Leptogenesis 000449168 260__ $$c2020 000449168 3367_ $$0PUB:(DE-HGF)25$$2PUB:(DE-HGF)$$aPreprint$$bpreprint$$mpreprint$$s1606402160_24659 000449168 3367_ $$2ORCID$$aWORKING_PAPER 000449168 3367_ $$028$$2EndNote$$aElectronic Article 000449168 3367_ $$2DRIVER$$apreprint 000449168 3367_ $$2BibTeX$$aARTICLE 000449168 3367_ $$2DataCite$$aOutput Types/Working Paper 000449168 520__ $$aWe study the type-I seesaw model with three right-handed neutrinos and Majorana masses below the pion mass. In this mass range, the model parameter space is not only strongly constrained by the requirement to explain the light neutrino masses, but also by experimental searches and cosmological considerations. In the existing literature, three disjoint regions of potentially viable parameter space have been identified. In one of them, all heavy neutrinos decay shortly before big bang nucleosynthesis. In the other two regions, one of the heavy neutrinos either decays between BBN and the CMB decoupling or is quasi-stable. We show that previously unaccounted constraints from photodisintegration of nuclei practically rule out all relevant decays that happen between BBN and the CMB decoupling. Quite remarkably, if all heavy neutrinos decay before BBN, the baryon asymmetry of the universe can be quite generically explained by low-scale leptogenesis, i.e. without further tuning in addition to what is needed to avoid experimental and cosmological constraints. This motivates searches for heavy neutrinos in pion decay experiments. 000449168 536__ $$0G:(DE-HGF)POF3-611$$a611 - Fundamental Particles and Forces (POF3-611)$$cPOF3-611$$fPOF III$$x0 000449168 588__ $$aDataset connected to INSPIRE 000449168 650_7 $$2autogen$$anucleosynthesis: big bang 000449168 650_7 $$2autogen$$aneutrino: heavy: decay 000449168 650_7 $$2autogen$$acosmic background radiation: decoupling 000449168 650_7 $$2autogen$$aneutrino: heavy 000449168 650_7 $$2autogen$$aneutrino: decay 000449168 650_7 $$2autogen$$aneutrino: mass 000449168 650_7 $$2autogen$$aneutrino: heavy: search for 000449168 650_7 $$2autogen$$aneutrino: right-handed 000449168 650_7 $$2autogen$$api: decay 000449168 650_7 $$2autogen$$api: mass 000449168 650_7 $$2autogen$$amass: Majorana 000449168 650_7 $$2autogen$$abaryon: asymmetry 000449168 650_7 $$2autogen$$aleptogenesis 000449168 650_7 $$2autogen$$aseesaw model 000449168 650_7 $$2autogen$$anucleus 000449168 693__ $$0EXP:(DE-MLZ)NOSPEC-20140101$$5EXP:(DE-MLZ)NOSPEC-20140101$$eNo specific instrument$$x0 000449168 7001_ $$aDrewes, Marco$$b1 000449168 7001_ $$0P:(DE-H253)PIP1032760$$aHufnagel, Marco$$b2 000449168 7001_ $$aLucente, Michele$$b3 000449168 8564_ $$uhttps://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/449168/files/2009.11678.pdf$$yOpenAccess 000449168 8564_ $$uhttps://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/449168/files/2009.11678.gif?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yOpenAccess 000449168 8564_ $$uhttps://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/449168/files/2009.11678.jpg?subformat=icon-1440$$xicon-1440$$yOpenAccess 000449168 8564_ $$uhttps://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/449168/files/2009.11678.jpg?subformat=icon-180$$xicon-180$$yOpenAccess 000449168 8564_ $$uhttps://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/449168/files/2009.11678.jpg?subformat=icon-640$$xicon-640$$yOpenAccess 000449168 8564_ $$uhttps://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/449168/files/2009.11678.pdf?subformat=pdfa$$xpdfa$$yOpenAccess 000449168 909CO $$ooai:bib-pubdb1.desy.de:449168$$pdnbdelivery$$pdriver$$pVDB$$popen_access$$popenaire 000449168 9101_ $$0I:(DE-588b)2008985-5$$6P:(DE-H253)PIP1013967$$aDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron$$b0$$kDESY 000449168 9101_ $$0I:(DE-588b)2008985-5$$6P:(DE-H253)PIP1032760$$aDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron$$b2$$kDESY 000449168 9131_ $$0G:(DE-HGF)POF3-611$$1G:(DE-HGF)POF3-610$$2G:(DE-HGF)POF3-600$$3G:(DE-HGF)POF3$$4G:(DE-HGF)POF$$aDE-HGF$$bForschungsbereich Materie$$lMaterie und Universum$$vFundamental Particles and Forces$$x0 000449168 9141_ $$y2020 000449168 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0510$$2StatID$$aOpenAccess 000449168 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0580$$2StatID$$aPublished 000449168 9201_ $$0I:(DE-H253)T-20120731$$kT$$lTheorie-Gruppe$$x0 000449168 980__ $$apreprint 000449168 980__ $$aVDB 000449168 980__ $$aUNRESTRICTED 000449168 980__ $$aI:(DE-H253)T-20120731 000449168 9801_ $$aFullTexts