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WIMP Dark Matter Inflation with Observable Gravity Waves

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-09-29 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present a successful inflation model based on λϕ4\lambda \phi^4 potential in which a Standard Model (SM) singlet inflaton ϕ\phi, with mass of around a TeV or less, also plays the role of a weakly interacting scalar dark matter particle (WIMP). The WIMP relic abundance generated after inflation is in accord with the current observations. The spectral index nsn_s lies within the WMAP 1-σ\sigma bounds, while the Planck satellite may observe the tensor-to-scalar ratio, a canonical measure of gravity waves, which we estimate lies between 0.003 and 0.007.An unbroken Z2Z_2 parity ensures that the scalar WIMP is absolutely stable.

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@article{arxiv.1007.1672,
  title  = {WIMP Dark Matter Inflation with Observable Gravity Waves},
  author = {Nobuchika Okada and Qaisar Shafi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.1672},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures, Note Added which includes a brief discussion of two previous works on the same model considered in our paper

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