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Conversion-driven freeze-out can generate both dark matter and the baryon asymmetry in quark-philic flavored models.

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load-bearing objection Solid extension of conversion-driven cogenesis to colored mediators that enlarges the mass window and maps concrete LLP targets; thermal approximations are the main caveat, already flagged by the authors. the 2 major comments →

arxiv 2607.11147 v1 pith:ZQIAEQKX submitted 2026-07-13 hep-ph

Conversion-Driven Baryogenesis in Flavored Dark Matter Models

Benedetta Belfatto , Monika Blanke , Jan Heisig , Lena Rathmann , Felix Wilsch This is my paper
classification hep-ph
keywords conversion-driven freeze-outflavored dark matterbaryogenesiscogenesislong-lived particlesbound-state effectsquark-philic mediator
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This paper shows that the same conversion-driven freeze-out process that sets the dark-matter abundance can also produce the observed matter–antimatter asymmetry when the dark sector couples to quarks. Semi-efficient conversions between nearly degenerate dark-matter flavors and a colored mediator fall out of equilibrium at the right moment; CP-violating parts of those conversions generate equal-and-opposite baryon numbers in the mediator and Standard-Model sectors. Electroweak sphalerons convert part of the Standard-Model side before the mediator later decays and cancels its own share, leaving a net baryon excess. Because the mediator feels strong QCD interactions and can form bound states, the viable dark-matter mass range stretches from a few hundred GeV up to roughly 1.2 TeV with mass splittings of only tens of GeV. The same tiny couplings that keep freeze-out conversion-driven make the mediator long-lived, producing soft displaced tracks and vertices that existing LHC searches only partially cover and that dedicated HL-LHC analyses could reach.

Core claim

Conversion-driven freeze-out simultaneously accounts for the observed dark-matter relic density and the baryon asymmetry of the Universe in quark-philic flavored dark-matter models. Viable solutions exist throughout the conversion-driven region for dark-matter masses from a few hundred GeV to about 1.2 TeV and mediator–dark-matter mass splittings up to about 20 GeV, with the required CP asymmetry supplied by resonant thermal corrections when the two dark-matter flavors are nearly degenerate.

What carries the argument

Conversion-driven freeze-out: semi-efficient, CP-violating conversions between a colored mediator and nearly mass-degenerate Majorana dark-matter flavors that generate a B–L asymmetry while the dark sector remains initially thermalized, later reshaped by sphalerons into a net baryon excess.

Load-bearing premise

The approximate thermal-mass treatment used for kinematic blocking, scattering contributions, and the resonant CP source is accurate enough that a full finite-temperature calculation would not move the viable region out of existence.

What would settle it

A full finite-temperature calculation of the conversion rates and the thermal CP asymmetry ε(T) that yields required |ε/γ| ≫ 0.1 throughout the conversion-driven region, or HL-LHC displaced-vertex searches that fail to find soft long-lived colored mediators with the predicted lifetimes and mass splittings.

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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 6 minor

Summary. The paper extends conversion-driven freeze-out baryogenesis from leptophilic to quark-philic flavored dark-matter models. A Z2-odd Majorana DM multiplet and a colored scalar mediator couple to right-handed down-type quarks; semi-efficient CP-violating conversions generate a B-conserving asymmetry that electroweak sphalerons partially convert into a net baryon asymmetry before the mediator decays. The authors derive chemical-potential relations in the symmetric and broken phases (Sec. III), formulate Boltzmann equations for the mediator density, asymmetry, and DM abundances (Eqs. 28–30), and scan the conversion-driven freeze-out region including QCD bound-state effects via BSFfast. Two approximate thermal treatments (minimal vs thermal-mass) are compared. They report viable points matching both Ωh²≃0.12 and Y_ΔB≃0.9×10^{-10} for m_χ from a few hundred GeV to ~1.2 TeV and Δm≲20 GeV, with long-lived mediator signatures partially constrained by existing LHC searches and largely coverable by a dedicated soft displaced-vertex search at the HL-LHC.

Significance. If the results hold under a more complete finite-temperature treatment, the work provides a concrete, testable cogenesis scenario that simultaneously explains the DM relic density and the BAU without a DM asymmetry, while remaining independent of initial conditions through early dark-sector thermalization. The extension to colored mediators is nontrivial: strong QCD annihilations and bound-state formation (included via BSFfast) substantially enlarge the viable mass range relative to the leptophilic realization, reaching the TeV scale. The detailed chemical-potential analysis (including the correction relative to Ref. [9]) and the dual thermal benchmarks are genuine strengths. The predicted soft LLP signatures with decay lengths up to O(1) m are falsifiable at the (HL-)LHC and motivate dedicated searches, giving the scenario clear experimental contact.

major comments (2)
  1. [Sec. V.A, Fig. 5] Sec. V.A and Fig. 5: The abstract and conclusions state that the framework yields viable solutions throughout the CDFO region up to ~1.2 TeV. Fig. 5, however, shows that a substantial fraction of that region (especially in the minimal setup) lies in the gray band where ε/γ>0.1, which the text itself treats as outside the regime where the incoherent Boltzmann description is reliable. The required ε also differs by roughly an order of magnitude between the two thermal setups (middle panels of Fig. 3). The claim of viability “throughout” the CDFO region should be qualified to make explicit that the reliably controlled region depends on the thermal treatment and on the conservative ε/γ≲0.1 proxy, rather than on a sharp physical boundary.
  2. [Sec. IV, Eq. (32)] Sec. IV and Eq. (32): In the thermal-mass setup the asymmetric scattering contribution is approximated by ε_scat,i≃ε_i and is included in the source term of Eq. (29). This choice is what drives the earlier onset of the asymmetry and the much smaller required ε relative to the minimal setup. Because the difference is load-bearing for the size of the gray region in Fig. 5, the manuscript should either (i) provide a brief estimate of the uncertainty associated with this identification, or (ii) add a short third benchmark that retains thermal masses for kinematics but omits scatterings from the CP source, so that the robustness of the viable region can be judged more clearly. The authors already flag a full finite-T calculation as future work; a modest intermediate quantification would strengthen the present claims without requiring that calculation.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Sec. III] Sec. III, Eqs. (14)–(18): The conversion factors in the broken phase include a top-mass correction k_t, but the numerical analysis uses only the symmetric-phase relations down to T_sph≃130 GeV. A one-sentence quantitative statement of the fractional difference between the SP and BP factors for the down-type case (already said to be mild) would help the reader assess residual uncertainty near the electroweak crossover.
  2. [Sec. V.A, Eq. (33)] Eq. (33) and the paragraph following it: The spectral function γ(T) is taken from the leptogenesis literature with a relative SU(N) factor 3/2. A short explicit statement of which Casimir/color factors enter for a color-triplet scalar and right-handed down quarks would make the adaptation fully transparent.
  3. [Fig. 2] Fig. 2: The left and right panels share the same axis ranges and legend items; labeling the panels “(a) Minimal” and “(b) Thermal-mass” in the figure itself (in addition to the caption) would improve readability when the figure is extracted.
  4. [Sec. V.B] Sec. V.B: The reinterpretation of the disappearing-track and HSCP limits is described clearly, but the precise lifetime and mass cuts used when mapping SModelS and Ref. [41] onto the (m_χ,Δm) plane are not tabulated. A short appendix table or a sentence listing the efficiency assumptions would aid reproducibility.
  5. Throughout: The notation alternates between m_χ1, m_χ and m_χ1=m_χ2≡m_χ. Fixing one convention after the first occurrence would avoid minor confusion when reading the Boltzmann section against the parameter-space plots.
  6. [Appendix A] Appendix A: The approximate fermion propagator (A14) uses 2m_th^2 in the dispersion relation. A brief remark on whether hole modes or the full HTL spectral density could affect the conversion rates near freeze-out would be useful for readers familiar with thermal field theory, even if only to state that they are neglected.

Circularity Check

1 steps flagged

No significant circularity: ordinary parameter scan that fixes ar{\lambda} to the relic density and reads off the required \epsilon, then checks the model-independent ratio \epsilon/\gamma against a Cauchy-Schwarz bound.

specific steps
  1. self citation load bearing [Sec. I and Ref. [9]; also Sec. V and Refs. [10, 32, 41]]
    "Considering lepton-flavored dark matter, it has recently been shown that the cogenesis of dark matter and the baryon asymmetry can be economically achieved via conversion-driven freeze-out. ... In this work, we develop this mechanism further ..."

    The mechanism itself and several calculational tools (CDFO boundary, bound-state package, LLP reinterpretation) are taken from prior papers that share authors. This is ordinary cumulative research, not a circular premise: the chemical-potential relations, the quark-philic Boltzmann solutions, the required \epsilon maps and the viability cut \epsilon/\gamma < 0.1 are recomputed independently in the present work and do not reduce to the cited results by construction.

full rationale

The load-bearing chain is the Boltzmann system (28)–(30), the chemical-potential conversion factors of Sec. III (especially Eq. (18) for down-type quarks), and the resonant thermal CP asymmetry (33) adapted from the literature with an SU(N) rescaling. \bar{\lambda} is adjusted so that the solution of the Boltzmann equations reproduces \Omega h^{2} = 0.12; the resulting \\Delta_\varphi/\epsilon at T_sph is then converted into the required \epsilon that matches Y_\Delta B. The ratio \epsilon/\gamma is compared with the temperature-independent combination I_{1}/\xi whose absolute value is bounded by Cauchy-Schwarz (|I_{1}| \le 1) and by the coherence assumption \xi \gg 1 (they conservatively cut at 0.1). This is standard model-building parameter-space exploration, not a derivation that reduces to its inputs by construction. Self-citations supply the original leptophilic mechanism, the CDFO framework, the BSFfast package and LLP reinterpretations; none of them is a uniqueness theorem or an ansatz that forces the present quark-philic results. The two thermal setups are compared explicitly and the need for a full finite-temperature calculation is flagged by the authors themselves. No self-definitional loop, fitted-input-as-prediction, or load-bearing self-citation chain is present.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

5 free parameters · 4 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on a standard flavored-DM Lagrangian plus the conversion-driven freeze-out dynamics already established in prior work; the new free parameters are the usual Yukawa strength, branching ratio, CP phase combination, and small mass splitting needed for resonance. No exotic conserved charges or extra dimensions are introduced. The main modeling axioms are the chemical-equilibrium relations and the approximate thermal-mass treatment.

free parameters (5)
  • overall Yukawa strength λ-bar = ~10^{-7}–10^{-6}
    Fixed at each (m_χ, Δm) point so that Ωh² = 0.12; values ~10^{-7}–10^{-6} define the CDFO regime.
  • CP asymmetry parameter ε (or I1/ξ) = 10^{-7}–10^{-3}
    Read off from Δϕ/ε at T_sph to match Y_ΔB ≃ 0.9×10^{-10}; required values 10^{-7}–10^{-3} depending on thermal setup.
  • branching ratio B1 = 0.75 or 0.95
    Free input (scanned at 0.75 and 0.95) that controls the relative conversion rates of the two DM flavors.
  • DM mass splitting Δm12
    Must be small (ballpark λ-bar² m_χ) to resonantly enhance ε; treated as free within the ξ ≫ 1 regime.
  • Higgs-portal coupling λ_H = 0 (benchmark)
    Set to 0 (or checked at 1); mild effect because QCD annihilations dominate.
axioms (4)
  • domain assumption Fast SM Yukawa, sphaleron and hypercharge/charge neutrality interactions enforce the chemical-potential relations (5)–(13) above and below the electroweak crossover.
    Standard in electroweak baryogenesis literature; used to convert mediator asymmetry into B at T_sph.
  • domain assumption Symmetric-phase conversion factors remain adequate when the asymmetry is evaluated at T_sph ≃ 130 GeV near the crossover.
    Authors note the mild difference between SP and BP factors and adopt SP for numerics.
  • ad hoc to paper Thermal masses and the approximate spectral function γ(T) capture the leading kinematic blocking and CP source (Appendix A and Eq. (33)).
    Two benchmark setups are compared; full finite-T treatment is left for future work.
  • ad hoc to paper ε/γ ≲ 0.1 guarantees that the two nearly degenerate DM states can still be treated as incoherent particles.
    Used to shade the gray region in Fig. 5; larger values would require density-matrix evolution.
invented entities (1)
  • Z2-odd Majorana DM multiplet χ_i plus colored scalar mediator ϕ coupling to right-handed down-type quarks independent evidence
    purpose: Provide the conversion processes that both set the relic density and source the CP asymmetry while remaining B-conserving.
    Standard flavored-DM construction; independent_evidence is true because the long-lived colored mediator yields falsifiable LLP signatures at the LHC.

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The dark matter and baryon asymmetry problems remain two of the most pressing questions in fundamental physics. Considering lepton-flavored dark matter, it has recently been shown that the cogenesis of dark matter and the baryon asymmetry can be economically achieved via conversion-driven freeze-out. This mechanism leverages semi-efficient conversions to drive a departure from equilibrium while preserving independence from initial conditions through early thermalization of the dark sector. In this work, we develop this mechanism further, providing a detailed analysis of the chemical-equilibrium conditions and demonstrating that the framework can be extended to quark-philic scenarios, where the matter-antimatter asymmetry is generated resonantly through baryon-number-conserving $CP$-violating conversions of a mediator field into Standard Model quarks and dark matter. The strong QCD interactions of the colored mediator, including bound-state formation effects during freeze-out, substantially enlarge the viable parameter space and allow dark matter masses from a few hundred GeV up to the TeV scale. We furthermore assess the impact of thermal effects by comparing a minimal treatment with a setup that approximately accounts for thermal masses and their kinematic consequences. The resulting scenario predicts striking long-lived particle signatures with soft displaced decay products that remain only partially explored at the LHC and motivate dedicated searches at the HL-LHC.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.11147 by Benedetta Belfatto, Felix Wilsch, Jan Heisig, Lena Rathmann, Monika Blanke.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1: Schematic diagram showing two snapshots of the evolution of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2: Solutions of the Boltzmann equations for the parameter point [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3: Results for the Yukawa coupling [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4: One-loop self-energy diagram with thermal cut [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5: Viable parameter space below the CDFO boundary that provides correct relic abundance and baryon [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_5.png] view at source ↗

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