[The University of Texas at Austin: What starts here changes the world]
Theory Group
Theory Group Seminar, 04 February 2014


Dr. Yanou Cui, University of Maryland

Baryogenesis from WIMPs

abstract

We propose a robust, unified framework, in which the similar baryon and dark matter cosmic abundances both arise from the physics of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), with the rough quantitative success of the so-called “WIMP miracle”. In particular the baryon asymmetry arises from the decay of a meta-stable WIMP after its thermal freezeout at or below the weak scale. A minimal model and its embedding in R-parity violating (RPV) natural SUSY are studied as examples. The new mechanism saves RPV SUSY from the potential crisis of washing out primordial baryon asymmetry. We also consider the embedding of this idea in RPV split SUSY, where the mechanism works within the minimal model, and independently motivates the mini-split scale. Phenomenological implications for the LHC and precision tests are discussed.



This page was last updated on 13 August 2015
Texas Cosmology Center   ♦   Physics Department   ♦   University of Texas at Austin