On gravitational preheating

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/07/001MaRDI QIDQ5099351zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oleg Lebedev, Jong-Hyun Yoon

Publication date 31 August 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15808

zbMATH Keywords

dark matter theoryinflationparticle physics-cosmology connectionphysics of the early universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Nuclear physics (81V35) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: We consider dark matter production during the inflaton oscillation epoch. It is conceivable that renormalizable interactions between dark matter and inflaton may be negligible. In this case, the leading role is played by higher dimensional operators generated by gravity and thus suppressed by the Planck scale. We focus on dim-6 operators and study the corresponding particle production in perturbative and non-perturbative regimes. We find that the dark matter production rate is dominated by non-derivative operators involving higher powers of the inflaton field. Even if they appear with small Wilson coefficients, such operators can readily account for the correct dark matter abundance.

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