Low-scale leptogenesis with minimal lepton flavor violation

We analyze the feasibility of low-scale leptogenesis where the inverse seesaw (ISS) and linear seesaw (LSS) terms are not simultaneously present. In order to generate the necessary mass splittings, we adopt a minimal lepton flavor violation (MLFV) hypothesis where a sterile neutrino mass degeneracy is broken by flavor effects. We find that resonant leptogenesis is feasible in both scenarios. However, because of a flavor alignment issue, MLFV-ISS leptogenesis succeeds only with a highly tuned choice of Majorana masses. For MLFV-LSS, on the other hand, a large portion of parameter space is able to generate sufficient asymmetry. In both scenarios we find that the lightest neutrino mass must be of order 10(-2) eV or below for successful leptogenesis. We briefly explore implications for low-energy flavor violation experiments, in particular mu -> e gamma. We find that the future MEG-II experiment, while sensitive to MLFV in our setup, will not be sensitive to the specific regions required for resonant leptogenesis.