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Superheavy WIMP dark matter from incomplete thermalization

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-08-10 v2

Abstract

Although it is usually thought that a class of weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matters (DMs), which have the vector coupling with the ZZ boson, is denied by null results of the direct DM searches, such WIMP DMs are still viable if they are superheavy with the mass of mDM109m_{DM} \gtrsim 10^9 GeV. In the future, the superheavy WIMP DMs can be searched up to mDM1012m_{DM} \simeq 10^{12} GeV, which corresponds to the so-called neutrino floor limit. We show that the observed abundance of ΩDMh20.1\Omega_\mathrm{DM}h^2 \simeq 0.1 for a superheavy WIMP DM can be reproduced by a suitable reheating temperature of TRmDM/29T_R \simeq m_{DM}/29 after inflation, if the direct inflaton decay into DM is negligible or kinematically forbidden.

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@article{arxiv.2103.07832,
  title  = {Superheavy WIMP dark matter from incomplete thermalization},
  author = {Nobuchika Okada and Osamu Seto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.07832},
  year   = {2021}
}

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11 pages, 2 figures, references added, version published in Phys. Lett. B

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