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 . For B-balls to survive thermalization, the reheating temperature after inflation should be less than about GeV.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9809375,
title = {Dark Matter from Unstable B-balls},
author = {Kari Enqvist},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9809375},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
11 pages, 3 ps figures. Invited talk at DARK98 conference, Heidelberg, Germany, July 20-25