Unified Explanation
for Dark Matter and the Baryon Asymmetry
Monday 15 March, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Glennys Farrar (NYU)
@: gf25 AT nyu.edu
I will discuss
models in which the baryon asymmetry is only a matter of
"packaging":
there is no net baryon number generation but the dark matter is
preponderantly
antibaryonic. Remarkably, an H dibaryon of mass ~ 2 GeV is a
satisfactory DM
candidate and the scenario is not excluded by present
constraints.
I will discuss how the correct DM to ordinary matter density
ratio arises,
lab constraints on the H dibaryon, tests on this hypothesis from
Super-K and DM
searches, and non-H versions of the scenario.