Monday, June 18, 2012

1206.3304 (Nikita Blinov et al.)

Dark Matter Antibaryons from a Supersymmetric Hidden Sector    [PDF]

Nikita Blinov, David E. Morrissey, Kris Sigurdson, Sean Tulin
The cosmological origin of both dark and baryonic matter can be explained through a unified mechanism called hylogenesis where baryon and antibaryon number are divided between the visible sector and a GeV-scale hidden sector, while the Universe remains net baryon symmetric. The "missing" antibaryons, in the form of exotic hidden states, are the dark matter. We study model-building, cosmological, and phenomenological aspects of this scenario within the framework of supersymmetry, which naturally stabilizes the light hidden sector and electroweak mass scales. Inelastic dark matter scattering on visible matter destroys nucleons, and nucleon decay searches offer a novel avenue for the direct detection of the hidden antibaryonic dark matter sea.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.3304

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