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Inflaton freeze-out. / Lebedev, Oleg; Nerdi, Thomas; Соломко, Тимофей Дмитриевич; Yoon, Jong-Hyun.
In: Physical review D, Vol. 106, No. 4, 043537, 29.08.2022.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Inflaton freeze-out
AU - Lebedev, Oleg
AU - Nerdi, Thomas
AU - Соломко, Тимофей Дмитриевич
AU - Yoon, Jong-Hyun
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.
PY - 2022/8/29
Y1 - 2022/8/29
N2 - We study the possibility that, after inflation,the inflaton reaches thermal equilibrium with the Standard Model thermal bath and eventually freezes out in the nonrelativistic regime. When the inflaton decay is the sole source of (nonthermal) dark matter, its relic density is automatically suppressed. We delineate parameter space leading to the correct dark matter abundance. The model allows for a significant Higgs-inflaton coupling which may lead to invisible Higgs decay into inflaton pairs at the LHC.
AB - We study the possibility that, after inflation,the inflaton reaches thermal equilibrium with the Standard Model thermal bath and eventually freezes out in the nonrelativistic regime. When the inflaton decay is the sole source of (nonthermal) dark matter, its relic density is automatically suppressed. We delineate parameter space leading to the correct dark matter abundance. The model allows for a significant Higgs-inflaton coupling which may lead to invisible Higgs decay into inflaton pairs at the LHC.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.043537
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.043537
M3 - Article
VL - 106
JO - Physical review D
JF - Physical review D
SN - 2470-0010
IS - 4
M1 - 043537
ER -
ID: 98160847