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The observed baryon asymmetry, as well as potentially an asymmetry in the dark matter sector, can be produced through dissipative particle production during inflation. A distinctive feature of this mechanism is the generation of matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-29 Mar Bastero-Gil , Arjun Berera , Rudnei O. Ramos , Joao G. Rosa

From the observed results, we deduced that the mass of the neutrino is about 10^(-1) eV and the mass of the fourth stable elementary particle (delta) is about 10^(0) eV. While neutrino is related to electro-weak field, the fourth stable…

General Physics · Physics 2016-12-26 Xiaodong Huang , Wuliang Huang

Inflation creates perturbations for the large scale structures in the universe, but it also dilutes everything. Therefore it is pertinent that the end of inflation must explain how to excite the Standard Model {\it dof} along with the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-22 Lingfei Wang , Ernestas Pukartas , Anupam Mazumdar

We propose a model which produces dark energy perturbations large enough to explain the lack of power seen at the quadrupole scale in the cosmic microwave background. If the dark energy is frozen from horizon exit during inflation until…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Christopher Gordon , David Wands

We explore the supernova neutrino-boosted dark matter (SN$\nu$BDM) and its direct detection. During core-collapse supernovae, an abundance of neutrinos are emitted. These supernova neutrinos can transfer their kinetic energy to the light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-22 Jun-Wei Sun , Lei Wu , Yan-Hao Xu , Bin Zhu

We investigate for viable models of inflation that can successfully produce dark matter (DM) from inflaton decay process, satisfying all the constraints from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and from some other observations. In particular,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-19 Anish Ghoshal , Gaetano Lambiase , Supratik Pal , Arnab Paul , Shiladitya Porey

I suggest a new extension of the standard model of particle physics, which introduces a dark sector with the $SU(2)_{D}\otimes U(1)_{D'}$ symmetry besides the SM sector. The new particles of the model all inhabit in the dark sector. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Wei-Min Yang

We analyze the spectrum of gravitational waves generated by the induced spectrum of tensor fluctuation during warm natural inflation. In our previous work it has been demonstrated that an epoch of warm natural inflation can lead to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-19 Miguel Correa , Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay , Nur Jaman , Grant J. Mathews

The scattering of neutrinos off dark matter can induce time delays in their propagation compared to that of photons, which would wash out correlations between ultra-high-energy neutrinos and electromagnetic observations of their sources -…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-11 Seth Koren

We perform calculations of dark photon production and decay in the early universe for ranges of dark photon masses and vacuum coupling with standard model photons. Simultaneously and self-consistently with dark photon production and decay,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-05 Jung-Tsung Li , George M. Fuller , Evan Grohs

A concise summary of out-of-equilibrium dark matter production during post-inflationary reheating is presented. We show that the dark matter relic abundance is in general sensitive to the thermalization rate of the inflaton decay products,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-10 Marcos A. G. Garcia

We present a model of dark matter as a superconducting fluid of Cooper pairs of right handed neutrinos or of vector-like quarks. The superconducting dark matter is induced by attractive channels in the Standard Model Higgs and color sectors…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-06 Stephon Alexander , Heliudson Bernardo , Humberto Gilmer

High energy particles are produced by the annihilation of dark matter particles in our galaxy. These are presently searched for using balloon-borne antiproton and positron detectors and large area, deep underground neutrino telescopes. Dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 F. Halzen , J. E Jacobsen

Ultracompact dark matter minihalos (UCMHs) would be formed during the earlier universe if there were large density perturbations. If the dark matter can decay into the standard model particles, such as neutrinos, these objects would become…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-06 Yun-Long Zheng , Yu-Peng Yang , Ming-Zhe Li , Hong-Shi Zong

Primordial inflation and Dark Matter (DM) could both belong to the hidden sector. It is therefore plausible that the inflaton, which drives inflation, could couple to the DM either directly or indirectly, thus providing a common origin for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-09 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Anupam Mazumdar , Saleh Qutub

Dark radiation, parameterized in terms of $N_{\rm eff}$, has been considered many times in the literature as a possible remedy in alleviating the Hubble constant ($H_0$) tension. We review here the effect of such an extra dark radiation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Stefano Gariazzo , Olga Mena

We calculate the time evolution of the expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor for a minimally-coupled massless scalar field in cosmological spacetimes, with an application to dark energy in mind. We first study the evolution from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-11 Hajime Aoki , Satoshi Iso , Yasuhiro Sekino

Moduli fields generically produce strong dark matter -- radiation and baryon -- radiation isocurvature perturbations through their decay if they remain light during inflation. We show that existing upper bounds on the magnitude of such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-05 Martin Lemoine , Jerome Martin , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

A theory of gravitational production of light scalar particles during and after inflation is investigated. We show that in the most interesting cases where long-wavelength fluctuations of light scalar fields can be generated during…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Gary Felder , Lev Kofman , Andrei Linde

Vacuum bubbles may nucleate and expand during the cosmic inflation. When inflation ends, the bubbles run into the ambient plasma, producing strong shocks followed by underdensity waves, which propagate outwards. The bubbles themselves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-08 Heling Deng , Alexander Vilenkin , Masaki Yamada