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Electroweak Baryogenesis and Dark Matter via a Pseudoscalar vs. Scalar

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-08-24 v4 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the electroweak baryogenesis in a fermionic dark matter scenario with a (pseudo)scalar being the mediator in the Higgs portal. It is discussed that the electroweak phase transition turns to be first-order after taking into account the role of the (pseudo)scalar in the thermal effective potential in our extended standard model. Imposing the relic density constraint from the WMAP/Planck and the bounds from the direct detection experiments XENON100/LUX, we show that the dark matter scenario with a scalar mediator is hardly capable of explaining the baryogenesis while the same model with a pseudoscalar mediator is able to explain the baryon asymmetry. For the latter, we constrain more the model with {\it Fermi}-LAT upper limit on dark matter annihilation into bbˉb\bar b and τ+τ\tau^+\tau^-. The allowed dark matter mass that leads to correct relic abundance, renders the electroweak phase transition strongly first-order, and respects the {\it Fermi}-LAT limit, will be in the range 110320110-320 GeV. The exotic and invisible Higgs decay bounds and the mono-jet search limit at the LHC do not affect the viable space of parameters.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1703.06506,
  title  = {Electroweak Baryogenesis and Dark Matter via a Pseudoscalar vs. Scalar},
  author = {Parsa Hossein Ghorbani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.06506},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

15 pages, 4 figures. Fermi-LAT constraint on DM DM to b\bar, tau^+ tau^- in the model was imposed. The range of the mediator mass was shown in a figure. Published in JHEP