Published May 1, 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

On ultraviolet freeze-in dark matter during reheating

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Quark and Lepton Physics (MoE) and Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079 (China)
  • 2. School of physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074 (China)

Description

The absence of any confirmative signals from extensive DM searching motivates us to go beyond the conventional WIMPs scenario. The feebly interacting massive particles (FIMPs) paradigm provides a good alternative which, despite of its feebly interaction with the thermal particles, still could correctly produce relic abundance without conventional DM signals. The Infrared-FIMP based on the renormalizable operators is usually suffering the very tiny coupling drawback, which can be overcome in the UltraViolet-FIMP scenario based on high dimensional effective operators. However, it is sensitive to the history of the very early Universe. The previous works terminates this sensitivity at the reheating temperature TRH. We, motivated by its UV-sensitivity, investigate the effects from the even earlier Universe, reheating era. We find that in the usual case with TRH mDM, the production rate during reheating is very small as long as the effective operators dimension d ≤ 8. Besides, we consider the contribution from the mediator, which may be produced during reheating. Moreover, we study the situation when TRH is even lower than mDM and DM can be directly produced during reheating if its mass does not exceed TMAX.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2018/05/036

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Journal Volume
2018
Journal Issue
05
Journal Page Range
p. 036
ISSN
1475-7516

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
51061978
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
MASS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; RENORMALIZATION; SENSITIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UNIVERSE; WIMPS
Descriptors DEC
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; MATTER; POSTULATED PARTICLES; RADIATIONS