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Baryogenesis and Dark Matter with Vector-like Fermions
We show that vector-like fermions can act as the dark matter candidate in the
universe whilst also playing a crucial role in electroweak baryogenesis through
contributing to the barrier in the one-loop thermal scalar potential. In order
for the new fermions to give rise to a strong first order phase transition, we
show that one requires rather large Yukawa couplings in the new sector, which
are strongly constrained by electroweak precision tests and perturbativity.
Strong couplings between the dark matter candidate and the Higgs boson
intuitively lead to small values of the relic density and problems with dark
matter direct detection bounds. Nevertheless, when considering the most general
realisation of the model, we find regions in the parameter space that respect
all current constraints and may explain both mysteries simultaneously.Comment: 21 pages, 11 figures, references added, includes discussion of vacuum
stability, matches published versio
Note on the dark matter explanation of the ARCADE excess and AMS data
In this paper we show that positron data from AMS seems to rule out the
explanation of the ARCADE isotropic radio background excess in terms of
self-annihilating dark matter. In earlier works it was found that leptonic
annihilation channels of light dark matter provide a good fit to the excess due
to synchrotron emission of the final state particles. However, limits on the
self-annihilation cross-section derived from the positron data of AMS now
severely constrain light self-annihilating dark matter and cross-sections below
that of a thermal relic are already tested for leptonic annihilation channels.
Combining these two results, we conclude that an explanation of the excess in
the radio background in terms of self-annihilating dark matter is excluded.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures, references added, matches published versio
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