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Minimal Dark Matter and Leptogenesis

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-07-18 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

A Dirac fermion carrying an integral weak isospin and the vanishing hypercharge is considered as its neutral component can be a promising dark matter candidate (called the minimal dark matter) whose mass is of order 100 GeV. While the symmetric population annihilates away due to a rapid gauge interaction, its asymmetric abundance is supposed to be produced by the decay of a right-handed neutrino superfield in the supersymmetric type I seesaw mechanism. The efficiencies for generating the dark matter and lepton asymmetries are calculated by solving a set of approximate Boltzmann equations. A spectacular feature of this scenario is the existence of a long-lived singly- or multiply-charged scalar and a shorter-lived singly-charged fermion whose tracks can be readily looked for at the LHC.

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@article{arxiv.1102.3455,
  title  = {Minimal Dark Matter and Leptogenesis},
  author = {Eung Jin Chun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.3455},
  year   = {2011}
}

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10 pages, 3 figures

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