Dark atoms: asymmetry and direct detection
Abstract
We present a simple UV completion of Atomic Dark Matter (aDM) in which heavy right-handed neutrinos decay to induce both dark and lepton number densities. This model addresses several outstanding cosmological problems: the matter/anti-matter asymmetry, the dark matter abundance, the number of light degrees of freedom in the early universe, and the smoothing of small-scale structure. Additionally, this realization of aDM may reconcile the CoGeNT excess with recently published null results and predicts a signal in the CRESST Oxygen band. We also find that, due to unscreened long-range interactions, the residual unrecombined dark ions settle into a diffuse isothermal halo.
- Publication:
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
- Pub Date:
- October 2011
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1105.2073
- Bibcode:
- 2011JCAP...10..011K
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- 17 pages, 3 figures, expanded discussion of light degrees of freedom, minor typos corrected, to appear in JCAP