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Filtered cogenesis of PBH dark matter and baryons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-07-02 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We propose a novel cogenesis of baryon and dark matter (DM) in the Universe by utilising a first-order phase transition (FOPT) in the dark sector containing an asymmetric Dirac fermion χ\chi. Due to the mass difference of χ\chi across the bubble walls, it is energetically favourable for χ\chi to get trapped in the false vacuum leading to the formation of Fermi-ball, which can self-collapse to form primordial black hole (PBH) if χ\chi has a sufficiently large Yukawa interaction. While such PBH formed out of false vacuum collapse can give rise to the DM in the Universe, a tiny amount of asymmetric χ\chi leaking into the true vacuum through the bubble walls can transfer the dark asymmetry into the visible sector via decay. The same mass difference of χ\chi across the two minima which decides the amount of trapping or filtering of χ\chi, also allows χ\chi decay into visible sector in the true minima while keeping it stable in the false vacuum. Our filtered cogenesis scenario can be probed via FOPT generated stochastic gravitational waves (GW) at near future detectors in addition to the well-known detection aspects of asteroid mass PBH constituting DM in the Universe.

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@article{arxiv.2502.12248,
  title  = {Filtered cogenesis of PBH dark matter and baryons},
  author = {Debasish Borah and Indrajit Saha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.12248},
  year   = {2025}
}

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33 pages, 12 captioned figures, matches version accepted for publication in JCAP