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Gravitational Baryogenesis and Dark Matter from Light Black Holes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-03-14 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study a scenario in which the baryon asymmetry is created through Hawking radiation from primordial black holes via a dynamically-generated chemical potential. This mechanism can also be used to generate the observed dark matter abundance, regardless of whether or not the black holes fully evaporate. In the case that evaporation ceases, the observed dark matter abundance is generically comprised of both relic black holes and an asymmetric dark matter component. We show that this two-component dark matter scenario can simultaneously account for the observed baryon asymmetry and the cosmological dark matter, a possibility which evades constraints on either individual candidate.

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@article{arxiv.2110.14660,
  title  = {Gravitational Baryogenesis and Dark Matter from Light Black Holes},
  author = {Nolan Smyth and Lillian Santos-Olmsted and Stefano Profumo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.14660},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

18 pages, 5 figures. This version accepted for publication in JCAP