Asymmetric dark matter from semi-annihilation

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2020)149MaRDI QIDQ2225795zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Avirup Ghosh, Deep Ghosh, Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay

Publication date 10 February 2021

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07705

zbMATH Keywords

beyond standard modelcosmology of theories beyond the SM

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: We show that a general semi-annihilation scenario, in which a pair of dark matter (DM) particles annihilate to an anti-DM, and an unstable state that can mix with or decay to standard model states, can lead to particle anti-particle asymmetry in the DM sector. The present DM abundance, including the CP-violation in the DM sector and the resulting present asymmetry are determined entirely by a single semi-annihilation process at next-to-leading order. For large CP-violation in this process, we find that a nearly complete asymmetry can be obtained in the DM sector, with the observed DM density being dominated by the (anti-)DM particle. The presence of additional pair-annihilation processes can modify the ratio of DM and anti-DM number densities further, if the pair-annihilation is active subsequent to the decoupling of the semi-annihilation. For such a scenario, the required CP-violation for generating the same present asymmetry is generically much smaller, as compared to the scenario with only semi-annihilation present. We show that a minimal model with a complex scalar DM with cubic self-interactions can give rise to both semi- and pair-annihilations, with the required CP-violation generated at one-loop level. We also find that the upper bound on the DM mass from S-matrix unitarity in the purely asymmetric semi-annihilation scenario, with maximal CP-violation, is around 15 GeV, which is much stronger than in the WIMP and previously considered asymmetric DM cases, due to the required large non-zero chemical potential for such asymmetric DM.

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