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INPAC Seminars

Pangenesis: common origin for ordinary and dark matter

Ray Volkas Professor The University of Melbourne
Fri, 2011-10-21 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Hall/INPAC (上海交通大学粒子物理宇宙学研究所,包玉刚图书馆东楼四楼(从北门进))

Pangenesis is the proposal that ordinary and dark matter are created together and therefore intimately related. After setting out the symmetry structure that forms the basis of the proposal, a specific realisation using the Affleck-Dine mechanism shall be presented. The universe is conceived to have total baryon number equal to zero, with the baryon asymmetry carried by ordinary matter cancelled by a corresponding asymmetry carried by dark matter. The generic predictions of this class of theories are GeV-scale dark matter and supersymmetry, with the strong possibility also of a Z' that decays to both ordinary and dark matter.