Superheavy dark matter through Higgs portal operators

Kolb, Edward W.; Long, Andrew J.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.103540

Title: Superheavy dark matter through Higgs portal operators

Abstract

The WIMPzilla hypothesis states that the dark matter is a super-weakly-interacting and super-heavy particle. Conventionally, the WIMPzilla abundance is set by gravitational particle production during or at the end of inflation. In this study we allow the WIMPzilla to interact directly with Standard Model fields through the Higgs portal, and we calculate the thermal production (freeze-in) of WIMPzilla dark matter from the annihilation of Higgs boson pairs in the plasma. The two particle-physics model parameters are the WIMPzilla mass and the Higgs-WIMPzilla coupling. The two cosmological parameters are the reheating temperature and the expansion rate of the universe at the end of inflation. We delineate the regions of parameters space where either gravitational or thermal production is dominant, and within those regions we identify the parameters that predict the observed dark matter relic abundance. Allowing for thermal production opens up the parameter space, even for Planck-suppressed Higgs-WIMPzilla interactions.

Authors:

Kolb, Edward W. ^[1]; Long, Andrew J. ^[1]

Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)

Publication Date:: Mon Nov 27 00:00:00 EST 2017

Research Org.:: Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

OSTI Identifier:: 1595666

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1410398

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0009924; FG02-13ER41958

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Physical Review D

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 96; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS

Citation Formats


                    Kolb, Edward W., and Long, Andrew J. Superheavy dark matter through Higgs portal operators.  United States: N. p., 2017. 
Web.  doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.103540.

Copy to clipboard


                    Kolb, Edward W., & Long, Andrew J. Superheavy dark matter through Higgs portal operators.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.103540

Copy to clipboard


                    Kolb, Edward W., and Long, Andrew J. Mon .  
"Superheavy dark matter through Higgs portal operators".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.103540.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1595666.

Copy to clipboard


                    
@article{osti_1595666,

  title        = {Superheavy dark matter through Higgs portal operators},

  author       = {Kolb, Edward W. and Long, Andrew J.},

  abstractNote = {The WIMPzilla hypothesis states that the dark matter is a super-weakly-interacting and super-heavy particle. Conventionally, the WIMPzilla abundance is set by gravitational particle production during or at the end of inflation. In this study we allow the WIMPzilla to interact directly with Standard Model fields through the Higgs portal, and we calculate the thermal production (freeze-in) of WIMPzilla dark matter from the annihilation of Higgs boson pairs in the plasma. The two particle-physics model parameters are the WIMPzilla mass and the Higgs-WIMPzilla coupling. The two cosmological parameters are the reheating temperature and the expansion rate of the universe at the end of inflation. We delineate the regions of parameters space where either gravitational or thermal production is dominant, and within those regions we identify the parameters that predict the observed dark matter relic abundance. Allowing for thermal production opens up the parameter space, even for Planck-suppressed Higgs-WIMPzilla interactions.},

  doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevD.96.103540},

  journal      = {Physical Review D},

  number       = 10,

  volume       = 96,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Nov 27 00:00:00 EST 2017},

  month        = {Mon Nov 27 00:00:00 EST 2017}

}

Copy to clipboard

Journal Article:

Free Publicly Available Full Text

Accepted Manuscript (Publisher)

Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Publisher's Version of Record

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.103540

Other availability

Search WorldCat to find libraries that may hold this journal

Citation Metrics:

Cited by: 56 works

Citation information provided by
Web of Science

Save / Share:

Export Metadata

Save to My Library

Works referenced in this record:

Cosmic abundances of stable particles: Improved analysis
journal, August 1991

Gondolo, Paolo; Gelmini, Graciela
Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 360, Issue 1
DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(91)90438-4

Gravitational production of superheavy dark matter
journal, July 2001

Chung, Daniel J. H.; Crotty, Patrick; Kolb, Edward W.
Physical Review D, Vol. 64, Issue 4
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.64.043503

Matter creation via vacuum fluctuations in the early Universe and observed ultrahigh energy cosmic ray events
journal, May 1999

Kuzmin, Vadim; Tkachev, Igor
Physical Review D, Vol. 59, Issue 12
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.59.123006

Gravitational fermion production in inflationary cosmology
journal, June 2012

Chung, Daniel J. H.; Everett, Lisa L.; Yoo, Hojin
Physics Letters B, Vol. 712, Issue 3
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.04.066

Nonthermal Supermassive Dark Matter
journal, November 1998

Chung, Daniel J. H.; Kolb, Edward W.; Riotto, Antonio
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 81, Issue 19
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.4048

Gravitino Production in the Inflationary Universe and the Effects on Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis
journal, May 1995

Kawasaki, M.; Moroi, T.
Progress of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 93, Issue 5
DOI: 10.1143/ptp/93.5.879

Quantized Fields and Particle Creation in Expanding Universes. I
journal, July 1969

Parker, Leonard
Physical Review, Vol. 183, Issue 5
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRev.183.1057

On the functional renormalization group for the scalar field on curved background with non-minimal interaction
journal, June 2015

Shapiro, Ilya L.; de Morais Teixeira, Poliane; Wipf, Andreas
The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 75, Issue 6
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3488-4

Dark matter from gravitational particle production at reheating
journal, February 2017

Markkanen, Tommi; Nurmi, Sami
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2017, Issue 02
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/02/008

The dawn of FIMP Dark Matter: A review of models and constraints
journal, September 2017

Bernal, Nicolás; Heikinheimo, Matti; Tenkanen, Tommi
International Journal of Modern Physics A, Vol. 32, Issue 27
DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X1730023X

The Minimal Model of nonbaryonic dark matter: a singlet scalar
journal, December 2001

Burgess, C. P.; Pospelov, Maxim; ter Veldhuis, Tonnis
Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 619, Issue 1-3
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00513-2

Can a vector field be responsible for the curvature perturbation in the Universe?
journal, October 2006

Dimopoulos, Konstantinos
Physical Review D, Vol. 74, Issue 8
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.083502

Probing Planckian physics: Resonant production of particles during inflation and features in the primordial power spectrum
journal, July 2000

Chung, Daniel J. H.; Kolb, Edward W.; Riotto, Antonio
Physical Review D, Vol. 62, Issue 4
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.62.043508

Isocurvature constraints on gravitationally produced superheavy dark matter
journal, July 2005

Chung, Daniel J. H.; Kolb, Edward W.; Riotto, Antonio
Physical Review D, Vol. 72, Issue 2
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.023511

Cosmological gravitino regeneration and decay
journal, September 1984

Ellis, Johm; Kim, Jihn E.; Nanopoulos, D. V.
Physics Letters B, Vol. 145, Issue 3-4
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(84)90334-4

Scaling behavior of interacting quantum fields in curved spacetime
journal, February 1982

Nelson, Bruce L.; Panangaden, Prakash
Physical Review D, Vol. 25, Issue 4
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.25.1019

Meijer G-Functions: A Gentle Introduction
journal, August 2013

Beals, Richard; Szmigielski, Jacek
Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 60, Issue 06
DOI: 10.1090/noti1016

Geometric reheating after inflation
journal, June 1998

Bassett, Bruce A.; Liberati, Stefano
Physical Review D, Vol. 58, Issue 2
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.58.021302

Irruption of massive particle species during inflation
journal, March 2015

Fedderke, Michael A.; Kolb, Edward W.; Wyman, Mark
Physical Review D, Vol. 91, Issue 6
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.063505

Scalar Phantoms
journal, October 1985

Silveira, Vanda; Zee, A.
Physics Letters B, Vol. 161, Issue 1-3
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(85)90624-0

The proper vibrations of the expanding universe
journal, July 1939

Schro¨dinger, Erwin
Physica, Vol. 6, Issue 7-12
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-8914(39)90091-1

Unitarity limits on the mass and radius of dark-matter particles
journal, February 1990

Griest, Kim; Kamionkowski, Marc
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 64, Issue 6
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.615

Gravitational particle creation and inflation
journal, May 1987

Ford, L. H.
Physical Review D, Vol. 35, Issue 10
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.35.2955

Grand-Unified-Theory Baryogenesis after Preheating
journal, November 1996

Kolb, Edward W.; Linde, Andrei; Riotto, Antonio
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 77, Issue 21
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.4290

Superheavy dark matter
journal, November 1998

Chung, Daniel J. H.; Kolb, Edward W.; Riotto, Antonio
Physical Review D, Vol. 59, Issue 2
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.59.023501

Production of massive particles during reheating
journal, August 1999

Chung, Daniel J. H.; Kolb, Edward W.; Riotto, Antonio
Physical Review D, Vol. 60, Issue 6
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.60.063504

WIMP miracle of the second kind
journal, July 2017

Heikinheimo, Matti; Tenkanen, Tommi; Tuominen, Kimmo
Physical Review D, Vol. 96, Issue 2
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.023001

Gravitational particle production in inflation. A fresh look
journal, January 1990

Yajnik, Urjit A.
Physics Letters B, Vol. 234, Issue 3
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(90)91926-3

Vector dark matter from inflationary fluctuations
journal, May 2016

Graham, Peter W.; Mardon, Jeremy; Rajendran, Surjeet
Physical Review D, Vol. 93, Issue 10
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.103520

Super-heavy dark matter – Towards predictive scenarios from inflation
journal, May 2017

Kannike, Kristjan; Racioppi, Antonio; Raidal, Martti
Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 918
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2017.02.019

Largest temperature of the radiation era and its cosmological implications
journal, June 2001

Giudice, Gian Francesco; Kolb, Edward W.; Riotto, Antonio
Physical Review D, Vol. 64, Issue 2
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.64.023508

The cosmological Higgstory of the vacuum instability
journal, September 2015

Espinosa, José R.; Giudice, Gian F.; Morgante, Enrico
Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2015, Issue 9
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2015)174

Works referencing / citing this record:

Despicable dark relics: generated by gravity with unconstrained masses
journal, April 2019

Fairbairn, Malcolm; Kainulainen, Kimmo; Markkanen, Tommi
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2019, Issue 04
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2019/04/005

Implications of the detection of primordial gravitational waves for the Standard Model
journal, May 2019

Franciolini, G.; Giudice, G. F.; Racco, D.
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2019, Issue 05
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2019/05/022

Global analyses of Higgs portal singlet dark matter models using GAMBIT
journal, January 2019

Athron, Peter; Balázs, Csaba; Beniwal, Ankit
The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 79, Issue 1
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6513-6

Global analyses of Higgs portal singlet dark matter models using GAMBIT
text, January 2018

Athron, Peter; Balázs, Csaba; Beniwal, Ankit
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
DOI: 10.3204/pubdb-2018-03703

Global analyses of Higgs portal singlet dark matter models using GAMBIT
text, January 2019

Athron, Peter; Balázs, Csaba; Beniwal, Ankit
RWTH Aachen University
DOI: 10.18154/rwth-2019-01973

Saturated Overburden Scattering and the Multiscatter Frontier: Discovering Dark Matter at the Planck Mass and Beyond
text, January 2018

Bramante, Joseph; Broerman, Benjamin; Lang, Rafael F.
arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.08044

Despicable Dark Relics: generated by gravity with unconstrained masses
text, January 2018

Fairbairn, Malcolm; Kainulainen, Kimmo; Markkanen, Tommi
arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.08236

Can the ANITA anomalous events be due to new physics?
text, January 2019

Cline, James M.; Gross, Christian; Xue, Wei
arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1904.13396

Similar Records in DOE PAGES and OSTI.GOV collections:

Gravity as a portal to reheating, leptogenesis and dark matter

Journal Article Barman, Basabendu ; Cléry, Simon ; Co, Raymond T. ; ... - Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

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) ∝ Φ^k 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 minimalmore »« less
https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12(2022)072

Full Text Available
Completely dark matter from rapid-turn multifield inflation

Journal Article Kolb, Edward W. ; Long, Andrew J. ; McDonough, Evan ; ... - Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

We study cosmological gravitational particle production as applied to “rapid-turn” models of inflation involving two scalar fields. We are interested in the production of massive spin-0 particles that only interact gravitationally and provide a candidate for the dark matter. Specifically, we study two models of rapid-turn multifield inflation, motivated in part by the de Sitter swampland conjecture, that are distinguished by the curvature of field space and the presence or absence of field space ‘angular momentum’ conservation. We find that one of these models leads to insufficient particle production and cannot explain the observed dark matter relic abundance. The secondmore »« less
https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep02(2023)181

Full Text Available
Thermal dark matter from a highly decoupled sector

Journal Article Berlin, Asher ; Hooper, Dan ; Krnjaic, Gordan - Physical Review D

It has recently been shown that if the dark matter is in thermal equilibrium with a sector that is highly decoupled from the Standard Model, it can freeze out with an acceptable relic abundance, even if the dark matter is as heavy as ~1–100 PeV. In such scenarios, both the dark and visible sectors are populated after inflation, but with independent temperatures. The lightest particle in the dark sector will be generically long-lived and can come to dominate the energy density of the Universe. Upon decaying, these particles can significantly reheat the visible sector, diluting the abundance of dark mattermore »« less
Cited by 92
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.095019

Full Text Available
Gravitational production of superheavy dark matter

Journal Article Chung, Daniel J. H. ; Crotty, Patrick ; Kolb, Edward W ; ... - Physical Review D

The dark matter in the universe can be in the form of a superheavy matter species (wimpzilla). Several mechanisms have been proposed for the production of wimpzilla particles during or immediately following the inflationary epoch. Perhaps the most attractive mechanism is through gravitational particle production, where particles are produced simply as a result of the expansion of the universe. In this paper we present a detailed numerical calculation of wimpzilla gravitational production in hybrid-inflation models and natural-inflation models. Generalizing these findings, we also explore the dependence of the gravitational production mechanism on various models of inflation. We show that superheavymore »« less
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.64.043503
Inflation, proton decay, and Higgs-portal dark matter in $$$$SO(10) \times U(1)_\psi $$$$

Journal Article Okada, Nobuchika ; Raut, Digesh ; Shafi, Qaisar - European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields

We propose a simple non-supersymmetric grand unified theory (GUT) based on the gauge group SO(10)×U(1)_ψ. The model includes 3 generations of fermions in 16 (+1), 10 (–2) and 1 (+4) representations. The 16-plets contain Standard Model (SM) fermions plus right-handed neutrinos, and the 10-plet and the singlet fermions are introduced to make the model anomaly-free. Gauge coupling unification at M_GUT≃5×10¹⁵ - 10¹⁶ GeV is achieved by including an intermediate Pati–Salam breaking at M_I ≃ 10¹² – 10¹¹ GeV, which is a natural scale for the seesaw mechanism. For M_I ≃ 10¹² – 10¹¹, proton decay will be tested by themore »« less
Cited by 8
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7550-5

Similar Records

Title: Superheavy dark matter through Higgs portal operators

Abstract

Citation Formats

Cosmic abundances of stable particles: Improved analysis journal, August 1991

Gravitational production of superheavy dark matter journal, July 2001

Matter creation via vacuum fluctuations in the early Universe and observed ultrahigh energy cosmic ray events journal, May 1999

Gravitational fermion production in inflationary cosmology journal, June 2012

Nonthermal Supermassive Dark Matter journal, November 1998

Gravitino Production in the Inflationary Universe and the Effects on Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis journal, May 1995

Quantized Fields and Particle Creation in Expanding Universes. I journal, July 1969

On the functional renormalization group for the scalar field on curved background with non-minimal interaction journal, June 2015

Dark matter from gravitational particle production at reheating journal, February 2017

The dawn of FIMP Dark Matter: A review of models and constraints journal, September 2017

The Minimal Model of nonbaryonic dark matter: a singlet scalar journal, December 2001

Can a vector field be responsible for the curvature perturbation in the Universe? journal, October 2006

Probing Planckian physics: Resonant production of particles during inflation and features in the primordial power spectrum journal, July 2000

Isocurvature constraints on gravitationally produced superheavy dark matter journal, July 2005

Cosmological gravitino regeneration and decay journal, September 1984

Scaling behavior of interacting quantum fields in curved spacetime journal, February 1982

Meijer G-Functions: A Gentle Introduction journal, August 2013

Geometric reheating after inflation journal, June 1998

Irruption of massive particle species during inflation journal, March 2015

Scalar Phantoms journal, October 1985

The proper vibrations of the expanding universe journal, July 1939

Unitarity limits on the mass and radius of dark-matter particles journal, February 1990

Gravitational particle creation and inflation journal, May 1987

Grand-Unified-Theory Baryogenesis after Preheating journal, November 1996

Superheavy dark matter journal, November 1998

Production of massive particles during reheating journal, August 1999

WIMP miracle of the second kind journal, July 2017

Gravitational particle production in inflation. A fresh look journal, January 1990

Vector dark matter from inflationary fluctuations journal, May 2016

Super-heavy dark matter – Towards predictive scenarios from inflation journal, May 2017

Largest temperature of the radiation era and its cosmological implications journal, June 2001

The cosmological Higgstory of the vacuum instability journal, September 2015

Despicable dark relics: generated by gravity with unconstrained masses journal, April 2019

Implications of the detection of primordial gravitational waves for the Standard Model journal, May 2019

Global analyses of Higgs portal singlet dark matter models using GAMBIT journal, January 2019

Global analyses of Higgs portal singlet dark matter models using GAMBIT text, January 2018

Global analyses of Higgs portal singlet dark matter models using GAMBIT text, January 2019

Saturated Overburden Scattering and the Multiscatter Frontier: Discovering Dark Matter at the Planck Mass and Beyond text, January 2018

Despicable Dark Relics: generated by gravity with unconstrained masses text, January 2018

Can the ANITA anomalous events be due to new physics? text, January 2019

Cosmic abundances of stable particles: Improved analysis
journal, August 1991

Gravitational production of superheavy dark matter
journal, July 2001

Matter creation via vacuum fluctuations in the early Universe and observed ultrahigh energy cosmic ray events
journal, May 1999

Gravitational fermion production in inflationary cosmology
journal, June 2012

Nonthermal Supermassive Dark Matter
journal, November 1998

Gravitino Production in the Inflationary Universe and the Effects on Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis
journal, May 1995

Quantized Fields and Particle Creation in Expanding Universes. I
journal, July 1969

On the functional renormalization group for the scalar field on curved background with non-minimal interaction
journal, June 2015

Dark matter from gravitational particle production at reheating
journal, February 2017

The dawn of FIMP Dark Matter: A review of models and constraints
journal, September 2017

The Minimal Model of nonbaryonic dark matter: a singlet scalar
journal, December 2001

Can a vector field be responsible for the curvature perturbation in the Universe?
journal, October 2006

Probing Planckian physics: Resonant production of particles during inflation and features in the primordial power spectrum
journal, July 2000

Isocurvature constraints on gravitationally produced superheavy dark matter
journal, July 2005

Cosmological gravitino regeneration and decay
journal, September 1984

Scaling behavior of interacting quantum fields in curved spacetime
journal, February 1982

Meijer G-Functions: A Gentle Introduction
journal, August 2013

Geometric reheating after inflation
journal, June 1998

Irruption of massive particle species during inflation
journal, March 2015

Scalar Phantoms
journal, October 1985

The proper vibrations of the expanding universe
journal, July 1939

Unitarity limits on the mass and radius of dark-matter particles
journal, February 1990

Gravitational particle creation and inflation
journal, May 1987

Grand-Unified-Theory Baryogenesis after Preheating
journal, November 1996

Superheavy dark matter
journal, November 1998

Production of massive particles during reheating
journal, August 1999

WIMP miracle of the second kind
journal, July 2017

Gravitational particle production in inflation. A fresh look
journal, January 1990

Vector dark matter from inflationary fluctuations
journal, May 2016

Super-heavy dark matter – Towards predictive scenarios from inflation
journal, May 2017

Largest temperature of the radiation era and its cosmological implications
journal, June 2001

The cosmological Higgstory of the vacuum instability
journal, September 2015

Despicable dark relics: generated by gravity with unconstrained masses
journal, April 2019

Implications of the detection of primordial gravitational waves for the Standard Model
journal, May 2019

Global analyses of Higgs portal singlet dark matter models using GAMBIT
journal, January 2019

Global analyses of Higgs portal singlet dark matter models using GAMBIT
text, January 2018

Global analyses of Higgs portal singlet dark matter models using GAMBIT
text, January 2019

Saturated Overburden Scattering and the Multiscatter Frontier: Discovering Dark Matter at the Planck Mass and Beyond
text, January 2018

Despicable Dark Relics: generated by gravity with unconstrained masses
text, January 2018

Can the ANITA anomalous events be due to new physics?
text, January 2019