Neutrinos and Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry

Authors

  • Jiaqi Zhou

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61173/nx52z067

Keywords:

Neutrinos, Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry, Seesaw Mechanisms, Physics

Abstract

This study is an aggregation of all the information present about neutrinos today, including seesaw mechanisms and their respective theses, as well as discovering how and why those mechanisms answer a much more important and mysterious problem than initially intended – answers to the origin of matter. Tweaking with the theories provided a potential configuration and combination of multiple predominant theories in the physics community in which matter-antimatter asymmetry could exist within the limits of known physical processes. The basic ideas and workings of the Dirac- and Majorana-Neutrino options, Type-I, II and III Seesaws and the Sphaleron process are listed in this study. Experiments have tried to prove these theses, but ultimately only succeeded in bringing about more problems to be solved. But even without experimental proof, the current theories can still make educated predictions on what was really happening at the start of the universe which created the asymmetry.

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Published

2025-04-21