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Asymmetric Dark Matter, Inflation and Leptogenesis from B-L Symmetry Breaking

arXiv:1805.08251 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.055040

Abstract

We propose a unified setup for dark matter, inflation and baryon asymmetry generation through the neutrino mass seesaw mechanism. Our scenario emerges naturally from an extended gauge group containing as a non-commutative symmetry, broken by a singlet scalar that also drives inflation. Its decays reheat the universe, producing the lightest right-handed neutrino. Automatic matter parity conservation leads to the stability of an asymmetric dark matter candidate, directly linked to the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe.

11 pages, 2 figures