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High energy gamma-rays and neutrinos can be produced both by the annihilation and by the possible slow decay of dark matter particles. We discuss the fluxes and spectra of such secondaries produced by dark matter particles in the universe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 F. W. Stecker

We investigate gravitino dark matter produced thermally at high temperatures and in decays of a long-lived sneutrino. We consider the Non-Universal Higgs Model and a generalized gauge mediation model, and in each case identify sneutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Leszek Roszkowski , Sebastian Trojanowski , Krzysztof Turzynski , Karsten Jedamzik

Since the first detection of gravitational waves by ground-based interferometers, it has emerged as a novel probe for exploring physics in the early universe. The particle nature of cold dark matter (DM) and its underlying production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-15 Yonghua Wang , Wei Chao

We point out that dark matter which is produced non-adiabatically in a phase transition (PT) with fast bubble walls receives a boost in velocity which leads to long free-streaming lengths. We find that this could be observed via the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-16 Iason Baldes , Yann Gouttenoire , Filippo Sala

It is usually assumed that during the reheating period of inflation the inflaton field behaves coherently and follows a classical path. It is pointed out that a background inflaton field \phi_0 falling down a potential density V(\phi) can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-16 Max Chaves

Gravitino is one feasible candidate for the dark matter in supergravity models. With its couplings being suppressed by the Plank mass, gravitino interacts very weakly with other particles, making its direct detection, or production at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-09-26 Yudi Santoso

We study the consequences of the gravitino decay into dark matter. We suppose that the lightest neutralino is the main component of dark matter. In our framework gravitino is heavy enough to decay before Big Bang Nucleosynthesis starts. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 David Gherson

We discuss the possibility of producing a light dark photon dark matter through a coupling between the dark photon field and the inflaton. The dark photon with a large wavelength is efficiently produced due to the inflaton motion during…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Yuichiro Nakai , Ryo Namba , Ziwei Wang

Decay of the inflaton or moduli which dominated the energy density of the universe at early times leads to a matter to radiation transition epoch. We consider non-thermal sterile dark matter particles produced as decay product during such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 Sukannya Bhattacharya , Subinoy Das , Koushik Dutta , Mayukh Raj Gangopadhyay , Ratul Mahanta , Anshuman Maharana

We propose that the totality of dark matter in the universe might ascribe its origin to one of the key properties of cosmological inflation, that it may be eternal: regions that at the end of the primordial accelerated expansion of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 G. Franciolini , M. Peloso , A. Riotto

We study the conditions for successful Affleck-Dine baryogenesis and the origin of gravitino dark matter in GMSB models. AD baryogenesis in GMSB models is ruled out by neutron star stability unless Q-balls are unstable and decay before…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-09 Francesca Doddato , John McDonald

We construct a consistent model of gravity where the tensor graviton mode is massive, while linearized equations for scalar and vector metric perturbations are not modified. The Friedmann equation acquires an extra dark-energy component…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 S. L. Dubovsky , P. G. Tinyakov , I. I. Tkachev

In this letter, we explore the phenomenological impact of inflationary gravitational particle production in the physics of Dark Matter (DM). Large-scale DM fluctuations generated during inflation behave as gravitational particles upon their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-05 Ayan Chakraborty , Debaprasad Maity , Rajesh Mondal

In the past few years, a possibility is investigated, where curvature itself behaves as a source of dark energy. So, it is natural to think whether curvature can produce dark matter too. It is found that, at classical level,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-01-14 S. K. Srivastava , K. P. Sinha

A light higgsino is strongly favored by the naturalness, while as a dark matter candidate it is usually under-abundant. We consider the higgsino production in a non-standard history of the universe, caused by a scalar field with an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-09 Chengcheng Han

We study postinflationary scalar dark matter production via its non-minimal coupling to gravity. During the inflaton oscillation epoch, dark matter is produced resonantly for a sufficiently large non-minimal coupling $\xi\gtrsim 5$. We find…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-24 Oleg Lebedev , Timofey Solomko , Jong-Hyun Yoon

We consider the production of dark matter during the process of reheating after inflation. The relic density of dark matter from freeze-in depends on both the energy density and energy distribution of the inflaton scattering or decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-14 Marcos A. G. Garcia , Kunio Kaneta , Yann Mambrini , Keith A. Olive , Sarunas Verner

By using a string-inspired modular invariant supergravity, which was proved well to explain WMAP observations appropriately, a mechanism of supersymmetry breaking (SSB) and Gravitino Production just after the end of inflation are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-17 Kenji Takagi , Yuta Koshimizu , Toyokazu Fukuoka , Hikoya Kasari , Mitsuo J. Hayashi

We study the minimal extension of the SM by a scalar with quartic interaction serving as an inflaton. For the model where scale symmetry is broken only in the inflaton sector, the mass of the inflaton is constrained to be relatively low.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Fedor Bezrukov , Abigail Keats

We argue that dark radiation is naturally generated from the decay of the overall volume modulus in the LARGE volume scenario. We consider both sequestered and non-sequestered cases, and find that the axionic superpartner of the modulus is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Tetsutaro Higaki , Fuminobu Takahashi