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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 O(10) MeVO(100) MeV{\cal O}(10)~{\rm MeV} - {\cal O}(100)~{\rm MeV} 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