Dark matter as the trigger of strong electroweak phase transition
- International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Via Bonomea 265, I-34136 Trieste (Italy)
- High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Secion, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, I-34014 Trieste (Italy)
In this paper, we propose a new possible connection between dark matter relic density and baryon asymmetry of the universe. The portal between standard model sector and dark matter not only controls the relic density and detections of dark matter, but also allows the dark matter to trigger the first order electroweak phase transition. We discuss systematically possible scalar dark matter candidates, starting from a real singlet to arbitrary high representations. We show that the simplest realization is provided by a doublet, and that strong first-order electroweak phase transition implies a lower bound on the dark matter direct detection rate. The mass of dark matter lies between 45 and 80 GeV, allowing for an appreciable invisible decay width of the Standard Model Higgs boson, which is constrained to be lighter than 130 GeV for the sake of the strong phase transition.
- OSTI ID:
- 22279747
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2012, Issue 02; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1475-7516
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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