Kick-alignment: matter asymmetry sourced dark matter [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14907


We investigate the possibility that the dark matter abundance is sourced by the baryon/lepton asymmetry of the early Universe. It turns out that a Goldstone field of a local classically preserved symmetry in the Standard Model experiences a kick during a period of baryon/lepton number generation. This mechanism can be regarded as dynamical generation of initial conditions for misalignment yet the prediction for relic abundance presents an inverse dependence on the coupling in parallel with freeze-in vs freeze-out. We explore two realizations of this mechanism and show that in conjunction with leptogenesis, it is possible to identify a viable promising region of parameter space for dark matter production with mass 10 MeV – 1 GeV and decay constant f in the range of $10^{10} – 10^{12}$ GeV.

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R. Alonso and J. Scholtz
Fri, 1 Jan 21
60/103

Comments: 11 pages, 3 figures, some amount of fun