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Electroweak Symmetric Dark Matter Balls

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-10-02 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

In the simple Higgs-portal dark matter model with a conserved dark matter number, we show that there exists a non-topological soliton state of dark matter. This state has smaller energy per dark matter number than a free particle state and has its interior in the electroweak symmetric vacuum. It could be produced in the early universe from first-order electroweak phase transition and contribute most of dark matter. This electroweak symmetric dark matter ball is a novel macroscopic dark matter candidate with an energy density of the electroweak scale and a mass of 1 gram or above. Because of its electroweak-symmetric interior, the dark matter ball has a large geometric scattering cross section off a nucleon or a nucleus. Dark matter and neutrino experiments with a large-size detector like Xenon1T, BOREXINO and JUNO have great potential to discover electroweak symmetric dark matter balls. We also discuss the formation of bound states of a dark matter ball and ordinary matter.

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@article{arxiv.1906.10739,
  title  = {Electroweak Symmetric Dark Matter Balls},
  author = {Eduardo Pontón and Yang Bai and Bithika Jain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.10739},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

50 pages, 10 figures

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