Superheavy WIMP dark matter from incomplete thermalization
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2021-08-10 v2
Abstract
Although it is usually thought that a class of weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matters (DMs), which have the vector coupling with the boson, is denied by null results of the direct DM searches, such WIMP DMs are still viable if they are superheavy with the mass of GeV. In the future, the superheavy WIMP DMs can be searched up to GeV, which corresponds to the so-called neutrino floor limit. We show that the observed abundance of for a superheavy WIMP DM can be reproduced by a suitable reheating temperature of after inflation, if the direct inflaton decay into DM is negligible or kinematically forbidden.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2103.07832,
title = {Superheavy WIMP dark matter from incomplete thermalization},
author = {Nobuchika Okada and Osamu Seto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.07832},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
11 pages, 2 figures, references added, version published in Phys. Lett. B