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arxiv: 0709.2634 · v1 · submitted 2007-09-17 · ✦ hep-ph · astro-ph

Entropy production by Q-ball decay for diluting long-lived charged particles

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keywords entropyproductionchargedlargelong-livedparticlesabundanceballs
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The cosmic abundance of a long-lived charged particle such as a stau is tightly constrained by the catalyzed big bang nucleosynthesis. One of the ways to evade the constraints is to dilute those particles by a huge entropy production. We evaluate the dilution factor in a case that non-relativistic matter dominates the energy density of the universe and decays with large entropy production. We find that large Q balls can do the job, which is naturally produced in the gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking scenario.

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