Common origin of visible and dark universe

Journal Article · Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2010 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.81.033001· OSTI ID:21409146

Peihong, Gu ^[1]; Sarkar, Utpal ^[2]

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1. Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, 34014 Trieste (Italy)
2. Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380009 (India)

Dark matter, baryonic matter, and dark energy have different properties but contribute comparable energy density to the present Universe. We point out that they may have a common origin. As the dark energy has a scale far lower than all known scales in particle physics but very close to neutrino masses, while the excess matter over antimatter in the baryonic sector is probably related to the neutrino-mass generation, we unify the origin of the dark and visible universe in a variant of the seesaw model. In our model (i) the dark matter relic density is a dark matter asymmetry emerged simultaneously with the baryon asymmetry from leptogenesis; (ii) the dark energy is due to a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone-Boson associated with the neutrino-mass generation.

• OSTI ID: 21409146
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 81, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.033001; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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