Chiral gravitational waves and baryon superfluid dark matter

Stephon Alexander, Evan McDonough, David N. Spergel

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Abstract

We develop a unified model of darkgenesis and baryogenesis involving strongly interacting dark quarks, utilizing the gravitational anomaly of chiral gauge theories. In these models, both the visible and dark baryon asymmetries are generated by the gravitational anomaly induced by the presence of chiral primordial gravitational waves. We provide a concrete model of an SU(2) gauge theory with two massless quarks. In this model, the dark quarks condense and form a dark baryon charge superfluid (DBS), in which the Higgs-mode acts as cold dark matter. We elucidate the essential features of this dark matter scenario and discuss its phenomenological prospects.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number003
JournalJournal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Volume2018
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2 2018

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords

  • baryon asymmetry
  • dark matter theory
  • inflation
  • particle physics - cosmology connection

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