Transport Meeting
Venue:
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Physics
Building, PHYS 2.116
Time: Tuesday, April 26, 12:15 pm
Contact: hees@th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de
Igor Mishustin
Jet quenching phenomena in the early universe
According to broadly accepted hypothesis, the universe contains not only
Standard-Model particles but also a significant amount of Dark Matter
(DM). When the DM particles like neutralinos annihilate each other, the
high-energy SM annihilation products are injected into the primordial
cosmic plasma. Then they loose energy in the process similar to jet
quenching studied in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and
LHC. Using empirical information from heavy-ion experiments I show that
the cosmological (anti)quark and gluon jets are damped very quickly until
the plasma remains in the deconfined phase. The charged hadron and lepton
jets are strongly damped even at later times until the recombination of
electrons and protons. The consequences of energy transfer by the
annihilation products to the cosmic matter are discussed.
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