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Asymmetric Reheating via Inverse Symmetry Breaking

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-04-25 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

Asymmetric reheating is a generic requirement for models of dark sectors with light species, but its implementation is usually in tension with unique phenomenologies otherwise possible in compelling theories containing dark copies of the Standard Model. We present a simple module to implement asymmetric reheating during a Z2\mathbb{Z}_2-breaking phase above some critical temperature. This reinvigorates the possibility of an exactly degenerate mirror sector and the striking phenomenology of composite particles oscillating into their mirror counterparts.

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@article{arxiv.2211.13212,
  title  = {Asymmetric Reheating via Inverse Symmetry Breaking},
  author = {Aurora Ireland and Seth Koren},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.13212},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures; v3: accepted for publication in PRD