A new bound on the low reheating temperature with dark matter
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2017-08-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We investigate a new bound on the low reheating temperature in a scenario where the Universe experiences early matter-domination before reheating after which the standard big bang cosmology begins. In many models of dark matter (DM), the small scale fluctuations of DM grow during the early matter-domination era and seed the formation of the ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs). Using the constraints on the number of UCMHs from gamma-ray observations, we find a lower bound on the reheating temperature between for WIMP dark matter depending on the nature of DM. A similar bound could be obtained for non-WIMP dark matter by observing UCMHs gravitationally such as pulsar timing, microlensing and so on in some future observations.
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@article{arxiv.1705.01200,
title = {A new bound on the low reheating temperature with dark matter},
author = {Ki-Young Choi and Tomo Takahashi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.01200},
year = {2017}
}
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5 pages, 2 figures