Entropy production by Q-ball decay for diluting long-lived charged particles
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
The cosmic abundance of a long-lived charged particle such as a stau is tightly constrained by the catalyzed big bang nucleosynthesis. One of the ways to evade the constraints is to dilute those particles by a huge entropy production. We evaluate the dilution factor in a case that non-relativistic matter dominates the energy density of the universe and decays with large entropy production. We find that large Q balls can do the job, which is naturally produced in the gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking scenario.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0709.2634,
title = {Entropy production by Q-ball decay for diluting long-lived charged particles},
author = {Shinta Kasuya and Fuminobu Takahashi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.2634},
year = {2008}
}
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8 pages, 1 figure