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Dark Matter might be an accidentally stable baryon of a new confining gauge interaction. We extend previous studies exploring the possibility that the DM is made of dark quarks heavier than the dark confinement scale. The resulting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-21 Andrea Mitridate , Michele Redi , Juri Smirnov , Alessandro Strumia

Dark matter coupled solely gravitationally can be produced through the decay of primordial black holes in the early universe. If the dark matter is lighter than the initial black hole temperature, it could be warm enough to be subject to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-23 Iason Baldes , Quentin Decant , Deanna C. Hooper , Laura Lopez-Honorez

Dark matter appears in two forms as a consequence of the fluid mechanics of self-gravitational condensation. Condensation occurs primarily on non-acoustic nuclei rather than on the acoustic nuclei of the Jeans (1902) criterion, leading to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carl H. Gibson

We examine the cosmological and astrophysical signatures of a "dark baryon," a neutral fermion that mixes with the neutron. As the mixing is through a higher-dimensional operator at the quark level, production of the dark baryon at high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-09 David McKeen , Maxim Pospelov , Nirmal Raj

Ordinary baryonic particles (such as protons and neutrons) account for only one-sixth of the total matter in the Universe. The remainder is a mysterious "dark matter" component, which does not interact via electromagnetism and thus neither…

A comet-like, but magnitudes smaller, extremely low albedo interstellar meteoroid population of fragile aggregates with solar type composition, measured in space and terrestrially, is most probably the universal dark matter. Although…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert K. Soberman , Maurice Dubin

We all know that in our family of particle physics we have three generations but still don't know why - the so-called "family problem". On other hand, in view of the masses and oscillations, the neutrinos now present some basic difficulty…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-08-18 W-Y. Pauchy Hwang

It is shown that the observed fractal distribution of galaxies is, in fact, consistent with homogeneity of the Universe and observational limits on $ \Delta T/T$, if the presence of dark matter and dark charge predicted by the Modified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. A. Kirillov

It was recently suggested that dark matter consists of ~GeV particles that carry baryon number and mix with the neutron. We demonstrate that this could allow for resonant dark matter-neutron oscillations in the early universe, at finite…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-10 Torsten Bringmann , James M. Cline , Jonathan M. Cornell

We discuss the possible sources of dark matter axions in the early universe. In the standard thermal scenario, an axion string network forms at the Peccei-Quinn phase transition $T\sim \fa$ and then radiatively decays into a cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 E. P. S. Shellard , R. A. Battye

The similar cosmological abundances observed for visible and dark matter suggest a common origin for both. By viewing the dark matter density as a dark-sector asymmetry, mirroring the situation in the visible sector, we show that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-01 Kalliopi Petraki , Mark Trodden , Raymond R. Volkas

We propose a novel framework where baryon asymmetry of the universe can arise due to forbidden decay of dark matter (DM) enabled by finite-temperature effects in the vicinity of a first order phase transition (FOPT). In order to implement…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-13 Debasish Borah , Arnab Dasgupta , Matthew Knauss , Indrajit Saha

In a baryon-symmetric universe, the baryon asymmetry observed for visible matter is matched by an equal and opposite asymmetry for dark matter, thereby closely connecting the number densities of both types of matter. This is a necessary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Raymond R. Volkas

The distributions of dark matter and baryons in the Universe are known to be very different: the dark matter resides in extended halos, while a significant fraction of the baryons have radiated away much of their initial energy and fallen…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-14 Matthew R. Buckley , Anthony DiFranzo

A rapid phase of accelerated expansion in the early universe, known as inflation, dilutes all matter except the vacuum induced quantum fluctuations. These are responsible for seeding the initial perturbations in the baryonic matter, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-28 Anupam Mazumdar

In standard models of baryogenesis and of dark matter, the mechanisms which generate the densities in both sectors are unrelated to each other. In this paper we explore models which generate the baryon asymmetry through the dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-24 Jessie Shelton , Kathryn M. Zurek

Primordial magnetic fields (PMF) can enhance baryon perturbations on scales below the photon mean free path. However, a magnetically driven baryon fluid becomes turbulent near recombination, thereby damping out baryon perturbations below…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-12 Pranjal Ralegankar

The nonbaryonic dark matter of the Universe is assumed to consist of new stable forms of matter. Their stability reflects symmetry of micro world and mechanisms of its symmetry breaking. Particle candidates for cosmological dark matter are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-12 Maxim Yu. Khlopov

Both scalar and vector dark matter can be produced during a cosmological first order phase transition if the dark matter is coupled to the field undergoing the transition. Both kinds of particle are also produced by the plasma through the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-28 Malcolm Fairbairn , William S. A. Shellard

We propose a novel framework where baryon asymmetry can arise due to forbidden decay of dark matter (DM) enabled by finite temperature effects in the early universe. In order to implement it in a realistic setup, we consider the DM to be a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-06 Debasish Borah , Suruj Jyoti Das , Rishav Roshan