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We propose a scenario that the Electroweak-Skyrmion, a solitonic object made of the Higgs field and the electroweak gauge fields, is identified as an asymmetric dark matter. In this scenario, the relic abundance of the dark matter is related to the baryon asymmetry of the Universe through a sphaleron-like process. We show that the observed ratio of dark matter abundance to the baryon asymmetry can be explained by this scenario with an appropriate choice of model parameters that is allowed by currently available experimental constraints.
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Hamada, Y., Kitano, R. & Kurachi, M. Electroweak-Skyrmion as asymmetric dark matter. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 124 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2022)124
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