Quantum-Kinetic Leptogenesis and Gravitational Waves from Seesaw-Assisted Domain-Wall Dynamics

Abstract

We investigate the connection between resonant leptogenesis and a primordial stochastic gravitational-wave background in a minimal two-right-handed-neutrino type-I seesaw with a real singlet scalar. The scalar sector admits a ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$-symmetric tree-level potential, while the tiny right-handed-neutrino coupling to the ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$-odd scalar generates a radiative vacuum-energy bias that causes the domain-wall network to annihilate. For quasi-degenerate heavy neutrinos, we describe the heavy-neutrino system with a density-matrix kinetic framework and use the ratio $r_q=\Delta M/{\Gamma }_{N_1}$ as an organizing variable for the separated, resonant and coherent regimes. The heavy-neutrino parameters that control the physical mass splitting also enter the radiatively generated domain-wall bias, providing a model-dependent link between the quantum-kinetic baryon asymmetry and the gravitational-wave peak frequency and amplitude. We emphasize that the gravitational- wave signal is not a direct measurement of an individual low-energy neutrino parameter; rather, it provides a model-dependent consistency relation among neutrino data, resonant leptogenesis, domain-wall annihilation and the stochastic gravitational-wave background.

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures