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arxiv 2103.09822 v1 pith:NG7Z2WH3 submitted 2021-03-17 hep-ph astro-ph.CO

Accidentally Asymmetric Dark Matter

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keywords darkabundancematterphasequarksheavysectortransition
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We study the effect of a first-order phase transition in a confining $SU(N)$ dark sector with heavy dark quarks. The baryons of this sector are the dark matter candidate. During the confinement phase transition the heavy quarks are trapped inside isolated, contracting pockets of the deconfined phase, giving rise to a second stage of annihilation that dramatically suppresses the dark quark abundance. The surviving abundance is determined by the local accidental asymmetry in each pocket. The correct dark matter abundance is obtained for $\mathcal{O}(1-100)$ PeV dark quarks, above the usual unitarity bound.

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