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We show that Q-ball decay in Affleck-Dine baryogenesis models can account for dark matter when the annihilation cross-section is sufficiently enhanced to explain the positron and electron excesses observed by PAMELA, ATIC and PPB-BETS. For…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-29 John McDonald

We present a mechanism for generating ultralight dark photon dark matter in the early Universe via a dilatonlike scalar field coupled to the dark photon's kinetic term. Energy is initially stored in the condensate of the dilaton, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-20 Peter Adshead , Kaloian D. Lozanov , Zachary J. Weiner

Modelling of Extreme Scattering Events suggests that the Galaxy's dark matter is an undetected population of cold, AU-sized, planetary-mass gas clouds. None of the direct observational constraints on this picture -- thermal/non-thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Mark Walker , Mark Wardle

The experimental fact that the energy density in Dark Matter and in Baryons is of the same order is one of the most puzzling in cosmology. In this letter we suggest a new mechanism able to explain this coincidence in the context of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-28 Giorgio Arcadi , Laura Covi , Marco Nardecchia

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

We propose a simple theory for the idea that cosmological dark matter (DM) may be present today mainly in the form of stable neutral hadronic thermal relics. In our model neutrino masses arise radiatively from the exchange of colored DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-27 M. Reig , D. Restrepo , J. W. F. Valle , O. Zapata

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

The particle that makes up the dark matter of the universe could be an axion or axion-like particle. A collection of axions can condense into a bound Bose-Einstein condensate called an axion star. It is possible that a significant fraction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-30 Eric Braaten , Hong Zhang

The nonbaryonic dark matter of the Universe is assumed to consist of new stable particles. A specific case is possible, when new stable particles bear ordinary electric charge and bind in heavy "atoms" by ordinary Coulomb interaction. Such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Maxim Yu. Khlopov , Andrey G. Mayorov , Evgeny Yu. Soldatov

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

Cosmological arguments proving that the universe is dominated by invisible non-baryonic matter are reviewed. Possible physical candidates for dark matter particles are discussed. A particular attention is paid to non-compensated remnants of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. D. Dolgov

In this work, we explain three beyond standard model (BSM) phenomena, namely neutrino masses, the baryon asymmetry of the Universe and Dark Matter, within a single model and in each explanation the right handed (RH) neutrinos play the prime…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Anirban Biswas , Sandhya Choubey , Laura Covi , Sarif Khan

We study tachyonic preheating associated with the spontaneous breaking of B-L, the difference of baryon and lepton number. Reheating occurs through the decays of heavy Majorana neutrinos which are produced during preheating and in decays of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-20 W. Buchmuller , K. Schmitz , G. Vertongen

We highlight that the observed concurrence between the baryon and dark matter relic densities can be explained via a parametric coincidence between two distinct production mechanisms: Affleck-Dine baryogenesis and dark matter UV freeze-in.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-05 Jae Hyeok Chang , Chang Sub Shin , James Unwin

The origin of neutrino masses and the nature of dark matter are two of the most pressing open questions of the modern astro-particle physics. We consider here the possibility that these two problems are related, and review some theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-20 Massimiliano Lattanzi , Roberto A. Lineros , Marco Taoso

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

We discuss a scenario that gravitinos produced non-thermally by an inflaton decay constitute dark matter in the present universe. We find that this scenario is realized for wide ranges of the inflaton mass and the vacuum expectation value.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Fuminobu Takahashi

Cosmology and particle physics are deeply interrelated. Among the common problems are dark energy, dark matter and baryon asymmetry of the Universe. We discuss these problems in general terms, and concentrate on several particular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-01 V. A. Rubakov

We investigate whether the baryon asymmetry of the universe is explained in the framework of the supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model with R-parity violating interactions. It is shown that the Affleck-Dine mechanism naturally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-05 Tetsutaro Higaki , Kazunori Nakayama , Ken'ichi Saikawa , Tomo Takahashi , Masahide Yamaguchi

The nature of dark matter and the origin of the baryon asymmetry are two of the deepest mysteries of modern particle physics. In the absence of hints regarding a possible solution to these mysteries, many approaches have been developed to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-19 S. M. Boucenna , S. Morisi