Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Gravity as a portal to reheating, leptogenesis and dark matter

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [3]
  1. Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogota (Colombia); University of Warsaw (Poland); FTPI, University of Minnesota
  2. Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay (France)
  3. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
We show that a minimal scenario, utilizing only the graviton as an intermediate messenger between the inflaton, the dark sector and the Standard Model (SM), is able to generate simultaneously the observed relic density of dark matter (DM), the baryon asymmetry through leptogenesis, as well as a sufficiently hot thermal bath after inflation. We assume an inflaton potential of the form V(Φ) ∝ Φk about the minimum at the end of inflation. The possibility of reheating via minimal gravitational interactions has been excluded by constraints on dark radiation for excessive gravitational waves produced from inflation. We thus extend the minimal model in several ways: i) we consider non-minimal gravitational couplings — this points to the parameter range of DM masses MN1 ≃ 2–10 PeV, and right-handed neutrino masses MN2 ≃ (5–20) × 1011 GeV, and TRH ≲ 3 × 105 GeV (for k ≤ 20); ii) we propose an explanation for the PeV excess observed by IceCube when the DM has a direct but small Yukawa coupling to the SM; and iii) we also propose a novel scenario, where the gravitational production of DM is a two-step process, first through the production of two scalars, which then decay to fermionic DM final states. In this case, the absence of a helicity suppression enhances the production of DM and baryon asymmetry, and allows a great range for the parameters including a dark matter mass below an MeV where dark matter warmness can be observable by cosmic 21-cm lines, even when gravitational interactions are responsible for reheating. We also show that detectable primordial gravitational wave signals provide the opportunity to probe this scenario for TRH ≲ 5 × 106 GeV in future experiments, such as BBO, DECIGO, CE and ET.
Research Organization:
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0011842
OSTI ID:
2234265
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 2022; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer NatureCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (146)

Particles in the Dark Universe: A Student’s Guide to Particle Physics and Cosmology book January 2021
Geometric compatibility of IceCube TeV-PeV neutrino excess and its galactic dark matter origin journal January 2016
New sensitivity curves for gravitational-wave signals from cosmological phase transitions journal January 2021
A testable hidden-sector model for Dark Matter and neutrino masses journal February 2020
Freeze-in production of FIMP dark matter journal March 2010
UltraViolet freeze-in journal March 2015
Augury of darkness: the low-mass dark Z ′ portal journal April 2017
Reopening the Higgs portal for single scalar dark matter journal May 2017
Gravitational production of a conformal dark sector journal May 2021
Reconciling neutrino flux from heavy dark matter decay and recent events at IceCube journal June 2014
Neutrinoful universe journal July 2014
Production of purely gravitational dark matter: the case of fermion and vector boson journal July 2019
Production of purely gravitational dark matter journal September 2018
Gravitational wave and CMB probes of axion kination journal September 2022
Filtered asymmetric dark matter during the Peccei-Quinn phase transition journal October 2021
A consistent model for leptogenesis, dark matter and the IceCube signal journal November 2016
Republication of: The redshift of extragalactic nebulae journal November 2008
Limits on masses and number of neutral weakly interacting particles journal July 1977
μ→eγ at a rate of one out of 109 muon decays? journal April 1977
Are there real goldstone bosons associated with broken lepton number? journal January 1981
After primordial inflation journal July 1983
Is it easy to save the gravitino? journal April 1984
Scalar Phantoms journal October 1985
On anomalous electroweak baryon-number non-conservation in the early universe journal May 1985
Barygenesis without grand unification journal June 1986
Origin of matter in the inflationary cosmology journal April 1991
The keV majoron as a dark matter particle journal December 1993
Baryogenesis from a lepton asymmetric universe journal February 1995
CP violating decays in leptogenesis scenarios journal September 1996
Supersymmetric relics from the big bang journal June 1984
Gravitinos as the cold dark matter in an universe journal January 1985
Inflation, neutrino baryogenesis, and (s)neutrino-induced baryogenesis journal June 1993
A lower bound on the right-handed neutrino mass from leptogenesis journal May 2002
Cosmological sign of neutrino CP violation journal November 2002
Predictions of the most minimal see-saw model journal January 2003
Leptogenesis in inflaton decay journal October 1999
The Minimal Model of nonbaryonic dark matter: a singlet scalar journal December 2001
Cosmic microwave background, matter–antimatter asymmetry and neutrino masses journal November 2002
Non-thermal leptogenesis from the heavier Majorana neutrinos journal December 2002
The neutrino mass window for baryogenesis journal August 2003
Leptogenesis for pedestrians journal February 2005
Towards a complete theory of thermal leptogenesis in the SM and MSSM journal May 2004
Effects of reheating on leptogenesis journal January 2009
Limits on Treh for thermal leptogenesis with hierarchical neutrino masses journal September 2003
GUT scale inflation, non-thermal leptogenesis, and atmospheric neutrino oscillations journal February 2004
Neutrino phenomenology—the case of two right-handed neutrinos journal July 2004
The new Minimal Standard Model journal March 2005
Vector Higgs portal dark matter and the invisible Higgs journal February 2012
Implications of LHC searches for Higgs-portal dark matter journal March 2012
Axial dark matter: The case for an invisible Z′ journal June 2014
IceCube events from heavy DM decays through the right-handed neutrino portal journal December 2015
Pure gravitational dark matter, its mass and signatures journal July 2016
On thermal gravitational contribution to particle production and dark matter journal November 2017
Leptogenesis journal September 2008
Some astrophysical consequences of the existence of a heavy stable neutral lepton journal August 1978
Laser interferometry for the Big Bang Observer journal July 2006
Detecting the cosmic gravitational wave background with the Big Bang Observer journal March 2006
Production of massive fermions at preheating and leptogenesis journal August 1999
WIMP dark matter candidates and searches—current status and future prospects journal May 2018
Connecting neutrino physics with dark matter journal December 2014
X-ray photons from late-decaying majoron dark matter journal August 2008
The kinetic dark-mixing in the light of CoGENT and XENON100 journal September 2010
Universality class in conformal inflation journal July 2013
IceCube events and decaying dark matter: hints and constraints journal December 2014
Z-portal dark matter journal March 2015
Gravitational effects on inflaton decay journal May 2015
Calculations of inflaton decays and reheating: with applications to no-scale inflation models journal July 2015
Isocurvature constraints on portal couplings journal June 2016
Toward (finally!) ruling out Z and Higgs mediated dark matter models journal December 2016
A consistent theory of decaying Dark Matter connecting IceCube to the Sesame Street journal April 2017
Z ′ portal to Chern-Simons Dark Matter journal November 2017
Theory and phenomenology of Planckian interacting massive particles as dark matter journal February 2018
Primordial gravitational waves, precisely: the role of thermodynamics in the Standard Model journal May 2018
Ricci reheating journal July 2019
(P)reheating after minimal plateau inflation and constraints from CMB journal July 2019
Inconsistency of an inflationary sector coupled only to Einstein gravity journal October 2019
Science case for the Einstein telescope journal March 2020
Impact of Higgs portal on gravity-mediated production of superheavy dark matter journal June 2020
Interplay between neutrino and gravity portals for FIMP dark matter journal January 2021
Inflaton oscillations and post-inflationary reheating journal April 2021
Gravitational SIMPs journal June 2021
Dark matter and leptogenesis from gravitational production journal June 2021
Ultraviolet freeze-in with a time-dependent inflaton decay journal July 2022
Probing physics beyond the standard model: limits from BBN and the CMB independently and combined journal October 2022
Post-inflationary dark matter bremsstrahlung journal October 2022
The imprint of warm dark matter on the cosmological 21-cm signal journal January 2014
Inflaton portal to a highly decoupled EeV dark matter particle journal August 2019
Inflation and leptogenesis in high-scale supersymmetry journal January 2020
Model of metastable EeV dark matter journal June 2020
Reheating and post-inflationary production of dark matter journal June 2020
Case for decaying spin- 3 / 2 dark matter journal October 2020
Gravitational production of dark matter during reheating journal June 2021
Nonthermal leptogenesis and UV freeze-in of dark matter: Impact of inflationary reheating journal August 2021
BICEP/ Keck constraints on attractor models of inflation and reheating journal February 2022
Gravitational portals in the early Universe journal April 2022
Gravitational portals with nonminimal couplings journal May 2022
Gravitational dark matter: Free streaming and phase space distribution journal July 2022
Inflationary gravitational leptogenesis journal October 2022
Neutrino masses in SU(2) ⊗ U(1) theories journal November 1980
Neutrino decay and spontaneous violation of lepton number journal February 1982
Baryogenesis via leptogenesis journal January 1992
Gauge singlet scalars as cold dark matter journal September 1994
Factorization and polarization in linearized gravity journal March 1995
Gravitational wave constraints on post-inflationary phases stiffer than radiation journal September 1998
Production of massive particles during reheating journal August 1999
Largest temperature of the radiation era and its cosmological implications journal June 2001
Beyond LISA: Exploring future gravitational wave missions journal October 2005
Primordial curvature fluctuation and its non-Gaussianity in models with modulated reheating journal September 2008
Detector configuration of DECIGO/BBO and identification of cosmological neutron-star binaries journal February 2011
Higgs searches and singlet scalar dark matter: Combined constraints from XENON 100 and the LHC journal December 2011
Update on scalar singlet dark matter journal September 2013
Updated CMB and x- and γ -ray constraints on Majoron dark matter journal September 2013
Galactic PeV neutrinos from dark matter annihilation journal June 2014
Monochromatic neutrinos generated by dark matter and the seesaw mechanism journal April 2015
Dark matter and gauge coupling unification in nonsupersymmetric SO(10) grand unified models journal May 2015
Superheavy dark matter and IceCube neutrino signals: Bounds on decaying dark matter journal July 2015
IceCube neutrinos, decaying dark matter, and the Hubble constant journal September 2015
Dark matter complementarity and the Z ′ portal journal October 2015
PeV neutrinos and a 3.5 keV x-ray line from a PeV-scale supersymmetric neutrino sector journal November 2015
Gravitational particle production in oscillating backgrounds and its cosmological implications journal September 2016
Minimal model of gravitino dark matter journal May 2017
New constraints on the free-streaming of warm dark matter from intermediate and small scale Lyman- α forest data journal July 2017
Enhancement of the dark matter abundance before reheating: Applications to gravitino dark matter journal November 2017
Inflation and high-scale supersymmetry with an EeV gravitino journal December 2017
Self-resonance after inflation: Oscillons, transients, and radiation domination journal January 2018
Spin-2 portal dark matter journal June 2018
Gravitino decay in high scale supersymmetry with R -parity violation journal July 2018
Freezing-in dark matter through a heavy invisible Z ′ journal August 2018
Radiative production of nonthermal dark matter journal March 2019
Moduli portal dark matter journal May 2019
Gauge Coupling Unification and Nonequilibrium Thermal Dark Matter journal June 2013
Testing the Dark Matter Scenario for PeV Neutrinos Observed in IceCube journal August 2015
Planckian Interacting Massive Particles as Dark Matter journal March 2016
Case for an EeV Gravitino journal July 2017
Equation of State and Duration to Radiation Domination after Inflation journal August 2017
Cosmological Lower Bound on Heavy-Neutrino Masses journal July 1977
Neutrino Mass and Spontaneous Parity Nonconservation journal April 1980
Possibility of Direct Measurement of the Acceleration of the Universe Using 0.1 Hz Band Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Antenna in Space journal November 2001
Thermally Generated Gauge Singlet Scalars as Self-Interacting Dark Matter journal February 2002
Decaying Warm Dark Matter and Neutrino Masses journal September 2007
Graviton physics journal November 2006
Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector journal November 2013
Direct detection of Higgs–portal dark matter at the LHC journal June 2013
The waning of the WIMP? A review of models, searches, and constraints journal March 2018
The dawn of FIMP Dark Matter: A review of models and constraints journal September 2017
Higgs Boson-Induced Reheating and Dark Matter Production journal February 2022

Similar Records

Gravity as a Portal to Reheating, Leptogenesis and Dark Matter
Conference · Wed Jul 31 00:00:00 EDT 2024 · Proceedings of Corfu Summer Institute 2023 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity" — PoS(CORFU2023) · OSTI ID:2479345

Bare mass effects on the reheating process after inflation
Journal Article · Thu May 23 20:00:00 EDT 2024 · Physical Review. D. · OSTI ID:2361176