Majoron-driven spontaneous leptogenesis in type-II seesaw model
Abstract
We investigate a minimal realization of spontaneous leptogenesis in the type-II seesaw model, where the lepton and Higgs asymmetries are generated as decay and inverse-decay processes drive the plasma toward the displaced equilibrium dictated by a rotating Majoron background. We derive the complete set of Boltzmann equations governing the evolution of asymmetric particle densities and analytically and numerically identify the freeze-out and freeze-in regimes. The resulting asymmetries depend primarily on the triplet branching fractions and are nearly independent of the triplet mass. The asymmetry scales as the square root of the smaller branching fraction when either decay mode into leptons or Higgs fields is suppressed, reflecting the symmetry structure; the lepton number is conserved once either coupling is turned off. We also show that the Majoron background does not induce CP-asymmetric decay of the scalar triplet in the massless final state limit, and thus its impact is negligible. Our results establish spontaneous leptogenesis as a simple and robust alternative to thermal type-II leptogenesis that requires neither additional scalar triplets nor explicit CP-violating interactions.
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BibTeX
@misc{chun2026majorondriven,
title = {{Majoron-driven spontaneous leptogenesis in type-II seesaw model}},
author = {Eung Jin Chun and Tae Hyun Jung and Jin Sun},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.07130},
eprint = {2609.07130},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.07130},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Majoron-driven spontaneous leptogenesis in type-II seesaw model
AU - Eung Jin Chun
AU - Tae Hyun Jung
AU - Jin Sun
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/07
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.07130
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.07130
AB - We investigate a minimal realization of spontaneous leptogenesis in the type-II seesaw model, where the lepton and Higgs asymmetries are generated as decay and inverse-decay processes drive the plasma toward the displaced equilibrium dictated by a rotating Majoron background. We derive the complete set of Boltzmann equations governing the evolution of asymmetric particle densities and analytically and numerically identify the freeze-out and freeze-in regimes. The resulting asymmetries depend primarily on the triplet branching fractions and are nearly independent of the triplet mass. The asymmetry scales as the square root of the smaller branching fraction when either decay mode into leptons or Higgs fields is suppressed, reflecting the symmetry structure; the lepton number is conserved once either coupling is turned off. We also show that the Majoron background does not induce CP-asymmetric decay of the scalar triplet in the massless final state limit, and thus its impact is negligible. Our results establish spontaneous leptogenesis as a simple and robust alternative to thermal type-II leptogenesis that requires neither additional scalar triplets nor explicit CP-violating interactions.
ER -