English

Cosmological phase transition, baryon asymmetry and dark matter Q-balls

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-10-21 v1

Abstract

We consider a mechanism of dark matter production in the course of first order phase transition. We assume that there is an asymmetry between X- and anti-X-particles of dark sector. In particular, it may be related to the baryon asymmetry. We also assume that the phase transition is so strongly first order, that X-particles do not permeate into the new phase. In this case, as the bubbles of old phase collapse, X-particles are packed into Q-balls with huge mass defect. These Q-balls compose the present dark matter. We find that the required present dark matter density is obtained for the energy scale of the theory in the ballpark of 1-10 TeV. As an example we consider a theory with effective potential of one-loop motivated form.

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@article{arxiv.1301.0354,
  title  = {Cosmological phase transition, baryon asymmetry and dark matter Q-balls},
  author = {E. Krylov and A. Levin and V. Rubakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.0354},
  year   = {2014}
}

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17 pages, 3 figures