Minimal Asymmetric Dark Matter
arXiv:1503.01119 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2015.06.080
Abstract
In the early Universe, any particle carrying a conserved quantum number and in chemical equilibrium with the thermal bath will unavoidably inherit a particle-antiparticle asymmetry. A new particle of this type, if stable, would represent a candidate for asymmetric dark matter (DM) with an asymmetry directly related to the baryon asymmetry. We study this possibility for a minimal DM sector constituted by just one (generic) multiplet carrying hypercharge, assuming that at temperatures above the electroweak phase transition an effective operator enforces chemical equilibrium between and the Higgs boson. We argue that limits from DM direct detection searches severely constrain this scenario, leaving as the only possibilities scalar or fermion multiplets with hypercharge , preferentially quintuplets or larger representations, and with a mass in the few TeV range.
9 pages, 2 figures, included t-channel scattering, added details on charged-neutral mass splitting and indirect detection, accepted in PLB
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