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Dark Matter from Unstable B-balls

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The spectrum of MSSM admits solitons carrying baryonic charge, or B-balls. In an inflationary universe they can be produced in significant numbers by a break-up of a scalar condensate along the flat directions. It is shown that if SUSY breaking is mediated to the observable sector by gravity, B-balls are unstable but decay to baryons and LSPs typically well below the electroweak phase transition. It is argued that B-balls could be the source of most baryons and cold dark matter in the universe, with their number densities related by nLSP3nBn_{LSP}\simeq 3n_{B}. For B-balls to survive thermalization, the reheating temperature after inflation should be less than about 10310^{3} GeV.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9809375,
  title  = {Dark Matter from Unstable B-balls},
  author = {Kari Enqvist},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9809375},
  year   = {2007}
}

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11 pages, 3 ps figures. Invited talk at DARK98 conference, Heidelberg, Germany, July 20-25

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