String Fragmentation in Supercooled Confinement and implications for Dark Matter

Baldes, Iason; Gouttenoire, Yann; Sala, Filippo

Preprint

PUBDB-2021-01481

String Fragmentation in Supercooled Confinement and implications for Dark Matter

Baldes, I.Extern* ; Gouttenoire, Y.DESY* ; Sala, F.Extern*DESY*

2021

1-48 (2021) [10.3204/PUBDB-2021-01481]

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Report No.: DESY-20-122; ULB-TH/20-08; arXiv:2007.08440

Abstract: A strongly-coupled sector can feature a supercooled confinement transition in the early universe. We point out that, when fundamental quanta of the strong sector are swept into expanding bubbles of the confined phase, the distance between them is large compared to the confinement scale. The flux linking the fundamental quanta then deforms and stretches towards the wall, producing an enhanced number of composite states upon string fragmentation. The composite states are highly boosted in the plasma frame, which leads to additional particle production through the subsequent deep inelastic scattering. We propose a modelling of these dynamics and study the consequences for the abundance and energetics of particles in the universe and for bubble-wall Lorentz factors. This opens several new avenues of investigation, which we begin to explore here, showing that the composite dark matter relic density is affected by many orders of magnitude.

Keyword(s): string: fragmentation ; dark matter: composite ; scale: confinement ; dark matter: relic density ; deep inelastic scattering ; Lorentz ; bubble ; plasma ; flux ; confinement