Dark Transport Erases Baryon Inhomogeneity from Supercooled Phase Transitions
Abstract
Supercooled phase transitions can generate observable gravitational waves, but their bubble dynamics may also imprint large spatial inhomogeneities in the baryon asymmetry. For phase transitions below the TeV scale, ordinary baryon diffusion can be too slow to erase such inhomogeneities before Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, potentially leading to stringent constraints from the observed light-element abundances. We show that this problem can be naturally avoided in darkogenesis scenarios, where the phase transition first generates an asymmetry in a dark-sector particle that is subsequently transferred to visible baryons. The dark-sector particle can travel over much larger distances than ordinary baryons before decaying, erasing the inhomogeneity before the baryon asymmetry is established. We derive the conditions for efficient erasure in both the diffusive and collisionless transport regimes and translate them into constraints on the dark-sector interactions. For a representative dark phase transition with a reheating temperature of 𝒪(1) GeV, β/H ≃ 10, and a dark-sector particle lifetime of 0.1 s, we find that the inhomogeneity is efficiently erased for a viable range of the interactions. Importantly, baryogenesis before the phase transition is challenged both by dilution from strong supercooling and by the subsequent imprinting of spatial inhomogeneities. This points toward darkogenesis associated with the phase transition as a consistent framework, in which dark-sector transport erases the inhomogeneity before it is transferred to visible baryons.
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BibTeX
@misc{girmohanta2026dark,
title = {{Dark Transport Erases Baryon Inhomogeneity from Supercooled Phase Transitions}},
author = {Sudhakantha Girmohanta and Kohei Kamada and Yuichiro Nakai and Fumio Uchida},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.27978},
eprint = {2609.27978},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.27978},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Dark Transport Erases Baryon Inhomogeneity from Supercooled Phase Transitions
AU - Sudhakantha Girmohanta
AU - Kohei Kamada
AU - Yuichiro Nakai
AU - Fumio Uchida
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/23
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.27978
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.27978
AB - Supercooled phase transitions can generate observable gravitational waves, but their bubble dynamics may also imprint large spatial inhomogeneities in the baryon asymmetry. For phase transitions below the TeV scale, ordinary baryon diffusion can be too slow to erase such inhomogeneities before Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, potentially leading to stringent constraints from the observed light-element abundances. We show that this problem can be naturally avoided in darkogenesis scenarios, where the phase transition first generates an asymmetry in a dark-sector particle that is subsequently transferred to visible baryons. The dark-sector particle can travel over much larger distances than ordinary baryons before decaying, erasing the inhomogeneity before the baryon asymmetry is established. We derive the conditions for efficient erasure in both the diffusive and collisionless transport regimes and translate them into constraints on the dark-sector interactions. For a representative dark phase transition with a reheating temperature of 𝒪(1) GeV, β/H ≃ 10, and a dark-sector particle lifetime of 0.1 s, we find that the inhomogeneity is efficiently erased for a viable range of the interactions. Importantly, baryogenesis before the phase transition is challenged both by dilution from strong supercooling and by the subsequent imprinting of spatial inhomogeneities. This points toward darkogenesis associated with the phase transition as a consistent framework, in which dark-sector transport erases the inhomogeneity before it is transferred to visible baryons.
ER -