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A broad range of single field models of inflation are analyzed in light of all relevant recent cosmological data, checking whether they can lead to the formation of long--lived Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) as candidate for dark matter. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-18 Manuel Drees , Encieh Erfani

We present perturbation initial conditions for two types of scalar field potential often used in the dark energy study: one inverse power-law and the other exponential. The solutions are presented in the presence of the $w =$ constant fluid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-07 Jai-chan Hwang , Hyerim Noh , Chan-Gyung Park , Da-Hee Lee

We present a scenario where a $Z_2$-symmetric scalar field $\phi$ first drives cosmic inflation, then reheats the Universe but remains out-of-equilibrium itself, and finally comprises the observed dark matter abundance, produced by particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-12 Tommi Tenkanen

A scalar potential obtained from the $D$-term in the Supergravity models, which dominates over $F$ term and is mainly responsible for the inflationary phase in the early universe, is studied. The potential with canonical kinetic terms for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-18 Rathin Adhikari , Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay , Yogesh

The homogeneous cosmological model in GR is proposed, where the vacuum energy, which can cause the inflation, is described by tensor field rather than by commonly used in inflationary scenarios scalar field. It is shown that if the initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Poghos F. Kazarian

In the framework of polynomial Palatini cosmology, we investigate a simple cosmological homogeneous and isotropic model with matter in the Einstein frame. We show that in this model during cosmic evolution, it appears the early inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-22 Marek Szydlowski , Aleksander Stachowski

We study inflation in a recently proposed gravitational effective field theory describing the trace anomaly. The theory requires an additional scalar which is massless in the early universe. This scalar -- referenced as an anomalyon --…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-17 Gregory Gabadadze , David N. Spergel , Giorgi Tukhashvili

Gravitational positivity bounds provide consistency conditions for effective field theories with gravity. They turn out to be phenomenologically useful by providing lower bounds in parameters of new physics beyond the Standard Models (BSM).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-24 Suro Kim , Pyungwon Ko

In this work we study a scalar field dark matter model with mass of the order of 100 MeV. We assume dark matter is produced in the process $e^-+e^+\to \phi +\phi^*+\gamma$, that, in fact, could be a background for the standard process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-06 F. Rossi-Torres , C. A. Moura

In the context of inflationary cosmology, we discuss a minimal baryogenesis scenario in which the resulting baryon to entropy ratio is determined by the amplitude of the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background. The model involves a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. R. S. Balaji , R. H. Brandenberger , Alessio Notari

In an earlier paper I proposed a highly symmetric semi-classical initial condition to describe the universe in the period leading up to the electroweak transition and completely determine all cosmology after that. Nothing beyond the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-25 Daniel Friedan

We consider an alternative cold dark matter candidate, ultralight bosons ($m>10^{-22}$eV) described by a complex scalar field (SFDM) with global U(1) symmetry, with comoving particle number density conserved after particle production during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 Bohua Li , Paul R. Shapiro , Tanja Rindler-Daller

The subjects of this thesis are the invisible axion and the more general family of axion-like particles. The invisible axion is a hypothetical elementary particle and a cold dark matter candidate. I present an improved computation of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-23 Luca Visinelli

We discuss observational consequences of f(R) dark energy scenarios that satisfy local gravity constraints (LGC) as well as conditions of the cosmological viability. The model we study is given by m(r)=C(-r-1)^p (C>0, p>1) with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Shinji Tsujikawa

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

This model assumes the baryons, radiation, three families of massless neutrinos, and cold dark matter were mutually thermalized before the baryon number was fixed, primeval curvature fluctuations were subdominant, and homogeneity was broken…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 Wayne Hu , P. J. E. Peebles

An ultralight free scalar field with mass around 10^{-23} - 10^{-22} eV is a viable dark mater candidate, which can help to resolve some of the issues of the cold dark matter on sub-galactic scales. We consider the gravitational field of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Andrei Khmelnitsky , Valery Rubakov

We show that warm inflation can be realized within a minimal extension of the Standard Model with three right-handed neutrinos, three complex scalars and a gauged lepton/B-L U(1) symmetry. This simple model can address all the shortcomings…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 Miguel Levy , João G. Rosa , Luis B. Ventura

We study minimal versions of Higgs inflation in the presence of a massless QCD axion. While the inflationary energy scale of the metric variant is too high to accommodate isocurvature bounds, it was argued that Palatini Higgs inflation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-19 Claire Rigouzzo , Sebastian Zell

We explore the range of parameters for dark-matter sterile neutrinos in an extention of the Minimal Standard Model by three singlet fermions with masses below the electroweak scale (the $\nu$MSM). This simple model can explain a wide range…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Takehiko Asaka , Mikhail Shaposhnikov , Alexander Kusenko