Regenerating a symmetry in asymmetric dark matter |
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Authors: | Buckley Matthew R Profumo Stefano |
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Affiliation: | Center for Particle Astrophysics, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA. |
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Abstract: | Asymmetric dark matter theories generically allow for mass terms that lead to particle-antiparticle mixing. Over the age of the Universe, dark matter can thus oscillate from a purely asymmetric configuration into a symmetric mix of particles and antiparticles, allowing for pair-annihilation processes. Additionally, requiring efficient depletion of the primordial thermal (symmetric) component generically entails large annihilation rates. We show that unless some symmetry completely forbids dark matter particle-antiparticle mixing, asymmetric dark matter is effectively ruled out for a large range of masses, for almost any oscillation time scale shorter than the age of the Universe. |
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