UV freeze-in in Starobinsky inflation

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/10/021zbMATH Open1494.83010arXiv2006.02442OpenAlexW3033516661MaRDI QIDQ5070979FDOQ5070979

Authors: N. Bernal, Javier Rubio, Hardi Veermäe 

Publication date: 14 April 2022

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

Abstract: In the Starobinsky model of inflation, the observed dark matter abundance can be produced from the direct decay of the inflaton field only in a very narrow spectrum of close-to-conformal scalar fields and spinors of mass $sim10^7$ GeV. This spectrum can be, however, significantly broadened in the presence of effective non-renormalizable interactions between the dark and the visible sectors. In particular, we show that UV freeze-in can efficiently generate the right dark matter abundance for a large range of masses spanning from the keV to the PeV scale and arbitrary spin, without significantly altering the heating dynamics. We also consider the contribution of effective interactions to the inflaton decay into dark matter.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.02442

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zbMATH Keywords

inflationdark matter theoryphysics of the early universeparticle physics-cosmology connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

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Cited In (13)

• Inflaton oscillations and post-inflationary reheating
• Ultraviolet freeze-in and non-standard cosmologies
• Ultraviolet freeze-in with a time-dependent inflaton decay
• Freeze-in from preheating
• Boltzmann or Bogoliubov? Approaches compared in gravitational particle production
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• Effective theory of freeze-in dark matter
• Gravitational reheating in Starobinsky inflation
• Reheating constraints and consistency relations of the Starobinsky model and some of its generalizations

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