Thermal right-handed neutrino self-energy in the non-relativistic regime

Abstract

Recently the issue of radiative corrections to leptogenesis has been raised. Considering the "strong washout" regime, in which OPE-techniques permit to streamline the setup, we report the thermal self-energy matrix of heavy right-handed neutrinos at NLO (resummed 2-loop level) in Standard Model couplings. The renormalized expression describes flavour transitions and "inclusive" decays of chemically decoupled right-handed neutrinos. Although CP-violation is not addressed, the result may find use in existing leptogenesis frameworks.

Comments: 11 pages, presented at the workshop Frontiers in Perturbative Quantum Field Theory, 10-12 September 2012, Bielefeld, Germany