Generating Luminous and Dark Matter During Inflation

10 Sept 2015, 15:00
20m
Rm 207

Rm 207

Speaker

Neil Barrie (University of Sydney, Australia)

Description

We propose a simple mechanism for generating ordinary luminous and dark matter during cosmic inflation. This scenario involves an extension of the Standard Model through the introduction of a dark matter candidate/s and an anomalous U(1)_X gauge group. The general framework developed is found to be able to replicate both the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry and the dark-to-visible matter mass density. (Based on arxiv: 1503.02366)

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