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Asymmetric self-interacting dark matter via Dirac leptogenesis
M. Dutta, N. Narendra, , S. Shil
Published in American Physical Society
2022
Volume: 106
   
Issue: 9
Abstract
The nature of neutrinos, whether Dirac or Majorana, is hitherto not known. Assuming that the neutrinos are Dirac, which needs B-L to be an exact symmetry, we make an attempt to explain the observed proportionality between the relic densities of dark matter (DM) and baryonic matter in the present Universe i.e., ωDM≈5ωB. We extend the Standard Model (SM) by introducing heavy scalar doublets Xi,i=1, 2 and η, two singlet scalars φ and φ′, a vectorlike Dirac fermion χ representing the DM and three right-handed neutrinos νRi,i=1, 2, 3. Assuming B-L is an exact symmetry of the early Universe, the CP-violating out-of-equilibrium decay of heavy scalar doublets; Xi,i=1, 2 to the SM lepton doublet L and the right-handed neutrino νR, generate equal and opposite B-L asymmetry among left (νL) and right (νR)-handed neutrinos. We ensure that νL-νR equilibration does not occur until below the electroweak (EW) phase transition during which a part of the lepton asymmetry gets converted to dark matter asymmetry through a dimension eight operator, which conserves B-L symmetry and remains in thermal equilibrium above sphaleron decoupling temperature. A part of the remaining B-L asymmetry then gets converted to a net B asymmetry through EW-sphalerons which are active at a temperature above 100 GeV. To alleviate the small-scale anomalies of ΛCDM, we assume the DM (χ) to be self-interacting via a light mediator φ, which not only depletes the symmetric component of the DM, but also paves a way to detect the DM at terrestrial laboratories through φ-H mixing, where H is the SM Higgs doublet. © 2022 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.
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JournalPhysical Review D
PublisherAmerican Physical Society
ISSN24700010