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Dark sector particles at the GeV scale carrying baryon number provide an attractive framework for understanding the origin of dark matter and the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe. We demonstrate that dark decays of hadronic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-08 Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez , Gilly Elor , Miguel Escudero , Bartosz Fornal , Benjamín Grinstein , Jorge Martin Camalich

The cold dark matter model successfully explains both the emergence and evolution of cosmic structures on large scales and, when we include a cosmological constant, the properties of the homogeneous and isotropic Universe. However, the cold…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Ivan de Martino , Sankha S. Chakrabarty , Valentina Cesare , Arianna Gallo , Luisa Ostorero , Antonaldo Diaferio

Mechanisms for the generation of the matter-antimatter asymmetry and dark matter strongly depend on the reheating temperature T_R, the maximal temperature reached in the early universe. Forthcoming results from the LHC, low energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-17 Wilfried Buchmuller

Despite their tremendous successes, modern-day cosmology and particle physics harbor a variety of unresolved mysteries. Two of the biggest are the origin of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe and the existence and nature of dark matter.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-26 Moritz Breitbach

We propose a new mechanism to simultaneously explain the observed dark matter abundance and the baryon asymmetry of the Universe. The mechanism is based on the Filtered Dark Matter scenario, where dark matter particles acquire a large mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 Michael J. Baker , Moritz Breitbach , Joachim Kopp , Lukas Mittnacht , Yotam Soreq

We propose a new scenario to produce the superheavy dark matter based on the inflationary universe. In our scenario, the inflaton couples to both a boson and a stable fermion. Although the fermion is produced by the inflaton decay after…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Masato Arai , Hideaki Hiro-Oka , Nobuchika Okada , Shin Sasaki

We present a simple mechanism which allows the simultaneous generation of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe along with its dark matter content. To this goal, we employ the out-of-equilibrium decays of heavy bath states into a feebly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-17 Andreas Goudelis , Pantelis Papachristou , Vassilis C. Spanos

Assuming existence of (very) heavy fourth generation of quarks and antiquarks we argue that antibaryon composed of the three heavy antiquarks can be light, stable and invisible, hence a good candidate for the Dark matter particle. Such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-26 D. Gorbunov , P. Pakhlov

We consider a mechanism of dark matter production in the course of first order phase transition. We assume that there is an asymmetry between X- and anti-X-particles of dark sector. In particular, it may be related to the baryon asymmetry.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-21 E. Krylov , A. Levin , V. Rubakov

The origin of the hot phase of the early universe remains so far an unsolved puzzle. A viable option is entropy production through the decays of heavy Majorana neutrinos whose lifetimes determine the initial temperature. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 W. Buchmuller , K. Schmitz , G. Vertongen

A supercooled phase transition in a nearly conformal dark sector can provide a natural setting for darkogenesis via its out-of-equilibrium dynamics, where a particle-antiparticle number asymmetry in the dark sector can be reprocessed into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Sudhakantha Girmohanta , Yuichiro Nakai , Zhihao Zhang

The baryonic and dark matter fractions in the universe can be both generated by the same baryogenesis mechanism, simultaneously and with comparable amounts, if dark matter is constituted by the baryons of the mirror world, a parallel hidden…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Zurab Berezhiani

Hypothesis of heavy stable quark of 4th family can provide a nontrivial solution for cosmological dark matter if baryon asymmetry in 4th family has negative sign and the excess of anti-U quarks with charge (-2/3) is generated in early…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maxim Yu. Khlopov

It is quite possible that the reheat temperature of the universe is extremely low close to the scale of Big Bang nucleosynthesis, i.e. $T_{R}\sim 1-10$ MeV. At such low reheat temperatures generating matter anti-matter asymmetry and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Kazunori Kohri , Anupam Mazumdar , Narendra Sahu

For the first time, we have a plausible, complete accounting of matter and energy in the Universe. Expressed a fraction of the critical density it goes like this: neutrinos, between 0.3% and 15%; stars, 0.5%; baryons (total), 5%; matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael S. Turner

We consider the production of axion dark matter through the misalignment mechanism in the context of a nonstandard cosmological history involving early matter domination by a scalar field with a time-dependent decay rate. In cases where the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-24 Paola Arias , Nicolás Bernal , Jacek K. Osiński , Leszek Roszkowski

We introduce a new mechanism for the simultaneous generation of baryon and dark matter asymmetries through ultraviolet-dominated freeze-in scatterings. The mechanism relies on heavy Majorana neutrinos that connect the visible Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-05 Pouya Asadi , Marianne Moore , David E. Morrissey , Michael Shamma

In this paper a simple (i.e. free of fine-tuning, etc.) new mechanism for primordial black hole formation based on the collapse of large antimatter systems in the early Universe is introduced. A peculiarity of this process is that, compared…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-15 Gabor Etesi

We study the possibility of dark matter in the form of heavy neutrinos from a fourth lepton family with helicity suppressed couplings such that dark matter is produced thermally via annihilations in the early Universe. We present all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Tuomas Hapola , Matti Jarvinen , Chris Kouvaris , Paolo Panci , Jussi Virkajarvi

The cosmological dust has begun to settle. A likely picture is a universe comprised (predominantly) of three components: ordinary baryons ($\Omega_B \approx 0.05$), non-baryonic dark matter ($\Omega_{Dark} \approx 0.22$) and dark energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Foot , R. R. Volkas