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Baryogenesis from dark matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-10-07 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We consider the possibility that some primordial fields decay purely into the dark sector creating asymmetric dark matter. This asymmetry is subsequently transmuted into leptons and baryons. Within this paradigm we compute the amount of asymmetric dark matter created from the out of equilibrium decays of the primordial fields with CP violating Yukawa couplings. The dark matter asymmetry is then transferred to the visible sector by the asymmetry transfer equation and generates an excess of BLB-L. Baryogenesis occurs via sphaleron processes which conserve BLB-L but violate B+LB+L. A mechanism for the annihilation of the symmetric component of dark matter is also discussed. The model leads to multi-component dark matter consisting of both bosonic and fermionic components.

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@article{arxiv.1302.0012,
  title  = {Baryogenesis from dark matter},
  author = {Wan-Zhe Feng and Anupam Mazumdar and Pran Nath},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.0012},
  year   = {2013}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure

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