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We demonstrate that B-ball decay in the MSSM can naturally solve the puzzle of why the densities of baryons and dark matter in the Universe are similar. This requires that the B-balls survive thermalization and decay below the freeze-out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Kari Enqvist , John McDonald

We compute the density of a spin-$\frac32$ particle, the raritron, produced at the end of inflation due to gravitational interactions. We consider a background inflaton condensate as the source of this production, mediated by the exchange…

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A {\it gauge invariant} combination of LLe {\it sleptons} within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model is one of the few inflaton candidates that can naturally explain population of the observable sector and creation of matter after…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Andrea Ferrantelli , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Anupam Mazumdar

We investigate the particle production from thermal gravitational annihilation in the very early universe, which is an important contribution for particles that might not be in thermal equilibrium or/and only have gravitational interaction,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-27 Yong Tang , Yue-Liang Wu

Dark matter, one of the fundamental components of the universe, has remained mysterious in modern cosmology and particle physics, and hence, this field is of utmost importance at present moment. One of the foundational questions in this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-04 Jaume de Haro , Supriya Pan

Gravitinos are a fundamental prediction of supergravity, their mass ($m_{G}$) is informative of the value of the SUSY breaking scale, and, if produced during reheating, their number density is a function of the reheating temperature…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-11 Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Lawrence M. Krauss

We study a novel dark matter production mechanism based on the freeze-in through semi-production, i.e. the inverse semi-annihilation processes. A peculiar feature of this scenario is that the production rate is suppressed by a small initial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-08 Andrzej Hryczuk , Maxim Laletin

A small tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ may lead to distinctive phenomenology of high-scale supersymmetry. Assuming the same origin of SUSY breaking between the inflation and visible sector, we show model independent features. The simplest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-26 Sibo Zheng

We investigate cosmological effects concerning the late-time entropy production due to the decay of non-relativistic massive particles. The thermalization process of neutrinos after the entropy production is properly solved by using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 M. Kawasaki , K. Kohri , Naoshi Sugiyama

The dynamics of cosmic reheating, that is, on how the energy stored in the inflaton is transferred to the standard model (SM) thermal bath, is largely unknown. In this work, we show that the phenomenology of the nonbaryonic dark matter (DM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-14 Nicolás Bernal , Kuldeep Deka , Marta Losada

We explore resonant production of sterile neutrino dark matter via the Shi-Fuller (SF) mechanism, revisiting its cosmological viability in light of recent results demonstrating that lepton-number asymmetries $L_\alpha \gtrsim 1$ at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-22 Cannon M. Vogel , Helena García Escudero , Julien Froustey , Kevork N. Abazajian

We consider an appealing scenario for the production of purely gravitational dark matter in the background of warm inflation, a mechanism that maintains stable thermal bath during inflation. Through systematic investigation of various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-09 Qing-Yang Wang , Tianyu Jia , Pei-Ran Chen , Yong Tang

Recently, Weinberg proposed a scenario where Goldstone bosons may be masquerading as fractional cosmic neutrinos. We calculate the energy loss rates through the emission of these Goldstone bosons in a post-collapse supernova core. Invoking…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-22 Wai-Yee Keung , Kin-Wang Ng , Huitzu Tu , Tzu-Chiang Yuan

We investigate production of non-thermal dark matter particles and heavy sterile neutrinos from inflaton during the reheating era, which is preceded by a slow-roll inflationary epoch with a quartic potential and non-minimal coupling ($\xi$)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-11 Anish Ghoshal , Zygmunt Lalak , Supratik Pal , Shiladitya Porey

It is shown, in the framework of the Thomas-Fermi model at finite temperature, that a cooling non-degenerate gas of massive neutrinos will, at a certain temperature, become unstable and undergo a first-order phase transition in which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Neven Bilic , Raoul D. Viollier

We consider the conditions for the decay products of perturbative inflaton decay to thermalize. The importance of considering the full spectrum of inflaton decay products in the thermalization process is emphasized. It is shown that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 John McDonald

We show how the relativistic effective field theory for the superfluid phase of helium-4 can replace the standard methods used to compute the production rates of low momentum excitations due to the interaction with an external probe. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-11 Andrea Caputo , Angelo Esposito , Antonio D. Polosa

We theoretically investigate the tunneling transport in a repulsively interacting ultracold Bose-Fermi mixture. A two-terminal model is applied to such a mixture and the supersymmetric-like tunneling current through the junction can be…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-04 Tingyu Zhang , Yixin Guo , Hiroyuki Tajima , Haozhao Liang

The low reheat temperature at the end of inflation from the gravitino bound constrains the creation of heavy Majorana neutrinos associated with models of leptogenesis. However, a detailed view of the reheating of the Universe at the end of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Raghavan Rangarajan , Narendra Sahu