English

Baryonic and Leptonic GeV Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-02-26 v1

Abstract

We perform a systematic analysis of models with GeV-scale dark matter coupled to baryons and leptons. Such theories provide a natural framework to explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe. We find that only a few baryonic dark matter models are free from tree-level proton decay without explicitly imposing baryon number conservation. We enumerate those cases and provide a brief overview of their phenomenology. We then focus on a leptonic dark matter model for a more detailed discussion of the baryon asymmetry generation via leptogenesis, the symmetry restoration in the dark sector and the expected dark matter annihilation signals in indirect detection experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2011.09014,
  title  = {Baryonic and Leptonic GeV Dark Matter},
  author = {Bartosz Fornal and Alec Hewitt and Yue Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.09014},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

6 pages, 7 figures

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