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Unified TeV Scale Picture of Baryogenesis and Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v3

Abstract

We present a simple extension of MSSM which provides a unified picture of cosmological baryon asymmetry and dark matter. Our model introduces a gauge singlet field NN and a color triplet field XX which couple to the right--handed quark fields. The out--of equilibrium decay of the Majorana fermion NN mediated by the exchange of the scalar field XX generates adequate baryon asymmetry for MN100M_N \sim 100 GeV and MXM_X \sim TeV. The scalar partner of NN (denoted N~1\tilde{N}_1) is naturally the lightest SUSY particle as it has no gauge interactions and plays the role of dark matter. N~1\tilde{N}_1 annihilates into quarks efficiently in the early universe via the exchange of the fermionic X~\tilde{X} field. The model is experimentally testable in (i) neutron--antineutron oscillations with a transition time estimated to be around 101010^{10} sec, (ii) discovery of colored particles XX at LHC with mass of order TeV, and (iii) direct dark matter detection with a predicted cross section in the observable range.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0612357,
  title  = {Unified TeV Scale Picture of Baryogenesis and Dark Matter},
  author = {K. S. Babu and R. N. Mohapatra and S. Nasri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0612357},
  year   = {2008}
}

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10 pages, one reference updated. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett