Dark Unification: a UV-complete Theory of Asymmetric Dark Matter

TL;DR

This paper proposes a UV-complete theory unifying dark and visible sectors through dark-color unification, explaining the observed dark matter to baryon density ratio with testable cosmological and collider signatures.

Contribution

It introduces a grand unification model linking dark and visible gauge theories, naturally explaining dark matter density and predicting new observable phenomena.

Findings

Unified dark and visible gauge theories at high scale.

Dark baryons composed of dark quarks in an isotriplet.

Multiple potential signatures in cosmology, astrophysics, and colliders.

Abstract

Motivated by the observed ratio of dark matter to baryon mass densities, $\rho_D/\rho_B \simeq 5$, we propose a theory of dark-color unification. In this theory, the dark to visible baryon masses are fixed by the ratio of dark to visible confinement scales, which are determined to be nearby in mass through the unification of the dark and visible gauge theories at a high scale. Together with a mechanism for darko-baryo-genesis, which arises naturally from the grand unification sector, the mass densities of the two sectors must be nearby, explaining the observed mass density of dark matter. We focus on the simplest possible example of such a theory, where Standard Model color $SU(3)_C$ is unified with dark color $SU(2)_D$ into $SU(5)$ at an intermediate scale of around $10^8-10^9$ GeV. The dark baryon consists of two dark quarks in an isotriplet configuration. There are a range of important cosmological, astrophysical and collider signatures to explore, including dark matter self-interactions, early matter domination from the dark hadrons, gravitational wave signatures from the hidden sector phase transition, contributions to flavor observables, as well as Hidden Valley-like signatures at colliders.