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A Matter-Antimatter Universe?

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In this article, it was shown that the universe can be a patchwork consisting of distinct regions of matter and antimatter, and that after recombination, it is impossible to avoid annihilation near regional boundaries.
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We ask whether the universe can be a patchwork consisting of distinct regions of matter and antimatter. We demonstrate that, after recombination, it is impossible to avoid annihilation near regional boundaries. We study the dynamics of this process to estimate two of its signatures: a contribution to the cosmic diffuse γ-ray background and a distortion of the cosmic microwave background. The former signal exceeds observational limits unless the matter domain we inhabit is virtually the entire visible universe. On general grounds, we conclude that a matter-antimatter symmetric universe is empirically excluded.

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A facility to search for hidden particles at the CERN SPS: the SHiP physics case.

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