Why three generations?

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2016-07
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  • https://www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/
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  • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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  • 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.05.025
  • 10.48550/arxiv.1602.03003
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Elsevier BV

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We discuss an anthropic explanation of why there exist three generations of fermions. If one assumes that the right-handed neutrino sector is responsible for both the matter-antimatter asymmetry and the dark matter, then anthropic selection favors three or more families of fermions. For successful leptogenesis, at least two right-handed neutrinos are needed, while the third right-handed neutrino is invoked to play the role of dark matter. The number of the right-handed neutrinos is tied to the number of generations by the anomaly constraints of the $U(1)_{B-L}$ gauge symmetry. Combining anthropic arguments with observational constraints, we obtain predictions for the $X$-ray observations, as well as for neutrinoless double-beta decay.

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