Dark Matter from Unstable B-balls

dc.creatorEnqvist, Kari
dc.date1998-09-14
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:04:59Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T04:04:59Z
dc.descriptionThe spectrum of MSSM admits solitons carrying baryonic charge, or B-balls. In an inflationary universe they can be produced in significant numbers by a break-up of a scalar condensate along the flat directions. It is shown that if SUSY breaking is mediated to the observable sector by gravity, B-balls are unstable but decay to baryons and LSPs typically well below the electroweak phase transition. It is argued that B-balls could be the source of most baryons and cold dark matter in the universe, with their number densities related by $n_{LSP}\simeq 3n_{B}$. For B-balls to survive thermalization, the reheating temperature after inflation should be less than about $10^{3}$ GeV.
dc.description11 pages, 3 ps figures. Invited talk at DARK98 conference, Heidelberg, Germany, July 20-25
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9809375
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9809375
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/48260
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleDark Matter from Unstable B-balls
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