scholarly journals Production of dark-matter bound states in the early universe by three-body recombination

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Braaten ◽  
Daekyoung Kang ◽  
Ranjan Laha
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Early Universe ◽  
Bound States ◽  
Three Body ◽  
Body Recombination

scholarly journals Tunguska dark matter ball

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (13) ◽  
pp. 1550066 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. D. Froggatt ◽  
H. B. Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Early Universe ◽  
Volcanic Activity ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Time Scale ◽  
Bound States ◽  
Ordinary Matter ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Large Ball ◽  
Tunguska Event

It is suggested that the Tunguska event in June 1908 was due to a cm-large ball of a condensate of bound states of 6 top and 6 antitop quarks containing highly compressed ordinary matter. Such balls are supposed to make up the dark matter as we earlier proposed. The expected rate of impact of this kind of dark matter ball with the earth seems to crudely match a time scale of 200 years between the impacts. The main explosion of the Tunguska event is explained in our picture as material coming out from deep within the earth, where it has been heated and compressed by the ball penetrating to a depth of several thousand km. Thus the effect has some similarity with volcanic activity as suggested by Kundt. We discuss the possible identification of kimberlite pipes with earlier Tunguska-like events. A discussion of how the dark matter balls may have formed in the early universe is also given.

scholarly journals Numerical study of three-body recombination for systems with many bound states

2011 ◽  
Vol 84 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia Wang ◽  
J. P. D'Incao ◽  
Chris H. Greene
Keyword(s):  
Bound States ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Three Body ◽  
Body Recombination

scholarly journals Dark matter freeze-in from semi-production

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Hryczuk ◽  
Maxim Laletin
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Early Universe ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Thermal Equilibrium ◽  
Indirect Detection ◽  
Production Mechanism ◽  
Number Density ◽  
Matter Production ◽  
Relic Density ◽  
Standard Formalism

Abstract We study a novel dark matter production mechanism based on the freeze-in through semi-production, i.e. the inverse semi-annihilation processes. A peculiar feature of this scenario is that the production rate is suppressed by a small initial abundance of dark matter and consequently creating the observed abundance requires much larger coupling values than for the usual freeze-in. We provide a concrete example model exhibiting such production mechanism and study it in detail, extending the standard formalism to include the evolution of dark matter temperature alongside its number density and discuss the importance of this improved treatment. Finally, we confront the relic density constraint with the limits and prospects for the dark matter indirect detection searches. We show that, even if it was never in full thermal equilibrium in the early Universe, dark matter could, nevertheless, have strong enough present-day annihilation cross section to lead to observable signals.

scholarly journals Three-body recombination calculations with a two-body mapped grid method

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Secker ◽  
J.-L. Li ◽  
P. M. A. Mestrom ◽  
S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans
Keyword(s):  
Grid Method ◽  
Three Body ◽  
Body Recombination

scholarly journals Sterile neutrino dark matter from generalized CPT -symmetric early-Universe cosmologies

2021 ◽  
Vol 104 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Duran ◽  
Logan Morrison ◽  
Stefano Profumo
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Early Universe ◽  
Sterile Neutrino

scholarly journals Displaced new physics at colliders and the early universe before its first second

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Calibbi ◽  
Francesco D’Eramo ◽  
Sam Junius ◽  
Laura Lopez-Honorez ◽  
Alberto Mariotti
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Early Universe ◽  
Upper Bound ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Early History ◽  
Relic Density ◽  
History Of ◽  
Indirect Information ◽  
The Universe

Abstract Displaced vertices at colliders, arising from the production and decay of long-lived particles, probe dark matter candidates produced via freeze-in. If one assumes a standard cosmological history, these decays happen inside the detector only if the dark matter is very light because of the relic density constraint. Here, we argue how displaced events could very well point to freeze-in within a non-standard early universe history. Focusing on the cosmology of inflationary reheating, we explore the interplay between the reheating temperature and collider signatures for minimal freeze-in scenarios. Observing displaced events at the LHC would allow to set an upper bound on the reheating temperature and, in general, to gather indirect information on the early history of the universe.

scholarly journals Sterile Neutrinos as Dark Matter: Alternative Production Mechanisms in the Early Universe

Universe ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 264
Author(s):  
Daniel Boyanovsky
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Distribution Function ◽  
Kinetic Equation ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Early Universe ◽  
Quantum Kinetic Equation ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Production Mechanisms ◽  
Freeze Out

We study various production mechanisms of sterile neutrinos in the early universe beyond and within the standard model. We obtain the quantum kinetic equations for production and the distribution function of sterile-like neutrinos at freeze-out, from which we obtain free streaming lengths, equations of state and coarse grained phase space densities. In a simple extension beyond the standard model, in which neutrinos are Yukawa coupled to a Higgs-like scalar, we derive and solve the quantum kinetic equation for sterile production and analyze the freeze-out conditions and clustering properties of this dark matter constituent. We argue that in the mass basis, standard model processes that produce active neutrinos also yield sterile-like neutrinos, leading to various possible production channels. Hence, the final distribution function of sterile-like neutrinos is a result of the various kinematically allowed production processes in the early universe. As an explicit example, we consider production of light sterile neutrinos from pion decay after the QCD phase transition, obtaining the quantum kinetic equation and the distribution function at freeze-out. A sterile-like neutrino with a mass in the keV range produced by this process is a suitable warm dark matter candidate with a free-streaming length of the order of few kpc consistent with cores in dwarf galaxies.

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