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Title: Gravity as a portal to reheating, leptogenesis and dark matter

Abstract

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 fermionicmore » 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.« less

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [3]
  1. Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogota (Colombia); University of Warsaw (Poland)
  2. Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay (France)
  3. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
2234265
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0011842
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2022; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Nature
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Early Universe Particle Physics; Particle Nature of Dark Matter; Baryo-and Leptogenesis; Models for Dark Matter

Citation Formats

Barman, Basabendu, Cléry, Simon, Co, Raymond T., Mambrini, Yann, and Olive, Keith A. Gravity as a portal to reheating, leptogenesis and dark matter. United States: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.1007/jhep12(2022)072.
Barman, Basabendu, Cléry, Simon, Co, Raymond T., Mambrini, Yann, & Olive, Keith A. Gravity as a portal to reheating, leptogenesis and dark matter. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12(2022)072
Barman, Basabendu, Cléry, Simon, Co, Raymond T., Mambrini, Yann, and Olive, Keith A. Tue . "Gravity as a portal to reheating, leptogenesis and dark matter". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12(2022)072. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2234265.
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abstractNote = {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.},
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year = {Tue Dec 13 00:00:00 EST 2022},
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