Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 97, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.036003
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- DoE [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- NSF [PHY-1316783]
- Murdock Charitable Trust
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We compute the mass function of bound states of asymmetric dark matter-nuggets-synthesized in the early Universe. We apply our results for the nugget density and binding energy computed from a nuclear model to obtain analytic estimates of the typical nugget size exiting synthesis. We numerically solve the Boltzmann equation for synthesis including two-to-two fusion reactions, estimating the impact of bottlenecks on the mass function exiting synthesis. These results provide the basis for studying the late Universe cosmology of nuggets in a future companion paper.
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