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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 80, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.075021
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- DOE [DE-FG03-91ER40662]
- NASA [NNX08AL48G]
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Affleck-Dine baryogenesis, accompanied by the formation and subsequent decay of Q-balls, can generate both the baryon asymmetry of the Universe and dark matter in the form of gravitinos. The gravitinos from Q-ball decay dominate over the thermally produced population if the reheat temperature T-R less than or similar to 10(7) GeV. We show that a gravitino with mass similar to 1 GeV is consistent with all observational bounds and can explain the baryon-to-dark-matter ratio in the gauge-mediated models of supersymmetry breaking for a wide range of cosmological and Q-ball parameters. Moreover, decaying Q-balls can be the dominant production mechanism for m(3/2) < 1 GeV gravitinos if the Q-balls are formed from a (B - L) = 0 condensate, which produces no net baryon asymmetry. Gravitinos with masses in the range 50 eV less than or similar to m(3/2) less than or similar to 100 keV produced in this way can act as warm dark matter and can have observable imprint on the small-scale structure.
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