Imaginary part of the right-handed neutrino self-energy at T > 160 GeV

Ioan Ghisoiu and Mikko Laine

The file below contains data for the imaginary part of a right-handed neutrino self-energy (Im Pi_R/T^2) at T > 160 GeV according to 1411.1765.

A word of caution is in order. As discussed in the first item on p.14 of 1411.1765, there is a dip at k < 0.2T in the results for M << T. This dip is unphysical and probably originates from the kinematic approximation k >> gT that was made in parts of the analysis. At low temperatures T < 200 GeV, the dip sometimes even leads to a negative result at the smallest k. Whenever there is a large difference between the M=0.02T and M=0.1T results, something is starting to go wrong, and we recommend that one should rather use M=0.2T for a robust prediction. (Newer results for the regime 5 GeV < T < 300 GeV can be found here, and in these the dip at the smallest k has been fixed phenomenologically, whereas results at other k remain stable.)

The columns of the file are listed below. The physical result, displayed in figs. 4-6 of 1411.1765, is given by column 11.

1: T / GeV [35 values]
2: M / GeV
3: M / T [61 values]
4: k / T [31 values]
5: |m_phi| / T
6: m_ell / T
7: imPiR/T^2: TREE
8: imPiR/T^2: NLO_phi
9: imPiR/T^2: LPM
10: imPiR/T^2: Delta(2->2)
11: imPiR/T^2: LPM + Delta(2->2)
12: imPiR/T^2: NON-REL