par Falkowski, Adam;No Redondo, Jose Miguel
Référence The Journal of high energy physics, 2013, 2, 034
Publication Publié, 2013
Référence The Journal of high energy physics, 2013, 2, 034
Publication Publié, 2013
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : | Particle production at the end of a first-order electroweak phase transition may be rather generic in theories beyond the standard model. Dark matter may then be abundantly produced by this mechanism if it has a sizable coupling to the Higgs field. For an electroweak phase transition occuring at a temperature T EW ~ 50-100 GeV, non- thermally generated dark matter with mass M X > TeV will survive thermalization after the phase transition, and could then potentially account for the observed dark matter relic density in scenarios where a thermal dark matter component is either too small or absent. Dark matter in these scenarios could then either be multi-TeV WIMPs whose relic abundace is mostly generated at the electroweak phase transition, or "Baby-Zillas" with mass MGUT ≫ M X ≫ vEW that never reach thermal equilibrium in the early universe. © 2013 SISSA. |