Scalaron the mighty: producing dark matter and baryon asymmetry at reheating
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2011-06-13 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
In R^2-inflation scalaron slow roll is responsible for the inflationary stage, while its oscillations reheat the Universe. We find that the same scalaron decays induced by gravity can also provide the dark matter production and leptogenesis. With R^2-term and three Majorana fermions added to the Standard Model, we arrive at the phenomenologically complete theory capable of simultaneously explaining neutrino oscillations, inflation, reheating, dark matter and baryon asymmetry of the Universe. Besides the seesaw mechanism in neutrino sector, we use only gravity, which solves all the problems by exploiting scalaron.
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@article{arxiv.1009.2448,
title = {Scalaron the mighty: producing dark matter and baryon asymmetry at reheating},
author = {D. S. Gorbunov and A. G. Panin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.2448},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
13 pages; v2: minor corrections; v3: 14 pages, journal version