Cosmological gravitational particle production of massive spin-2 particles
Abstract
The phenomenon of cosmological gravitational particle production (CGPP) is expected to occur during the period of inflation and the transition into a hot big bang cosmology. Particles may be produced even if they only couple directly to gravity, and so CGPP provides a natural explanation for the origin of dark matter. In this work we study the gravitational production of massive spin-2 particles assuming two different couplings to matter. We evaluate the full system of mode equations, including the helicity-0 modes, and by solving them numerically we calculate the spectrum and abundance of massive spin-2 particles that results from inflation on a hilltop potential. We conclude that CGPP might provide a viable mechanism for the generation of massive spin-2 particle dark matter during inflation, and we identify the favorable region of parameter space in terms of the spin-2 particle’s mass and the reheating temperature. As a secondary product of our work, we identify the conditions under which such theories admit ghost or gradient instabilities, and we thereby derive a generalization of the Higuchi bound to Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) spacetimes.
- Authors:
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- University of Chicago, IL (United States)
- Rice University, Houston, TX (United States)
- Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- University of Chicago, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 2229264
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0009924; FG02-13ER41958; SC0011941; PHY-2114024
- 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: 2023; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Cosmology of Theories BSM; Early Universe Particle Physics; Models for Dark Matter; Particle Nature of Dark Matter
Citation Formats
Kolb, Edward W., Ling, Siyang, Long, Andrew J., and Rosen, Rachel A. Cosmological gravitational particle production of massive spin-2 particles. United States: N. p., 2023.
Web. doi:10.1007/jhep05(2023)181.
Kolb, Edward W., Ling, Siyang, Long, Andrew J., & Rosen, Rachel A. Cosmological gravitational particle production of massive spin-2 particles. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep05(2023)181
Kolb, Edward W., Ling, Siyang, Long, Andrew J., and Rosen, Rachel A. Mon .
"Cosmological gravitational particle production of massive spin-2 particles". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep05(2023)181. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2229264.
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author = {Kolb, Edward W. and Ling, Siyang and Long, Andrew J. and Rosen, Rachel A.},
abstractNote = {The phenomenon of cosmological gravitational particle production (CGPP) is expected to occur during the period of inflation and the transition into a hot big bang cosmology. Particles may be produced even if they only couple directly to gravity, and so CGPP provides a natural explanation for the origin of dark matter. In this work we study the gravitational production of massive spin-2 particles assuming two different couplings to matter. We evaluate the full system of mode equations, including the helicity-0 modes, and by solving them numerically we calculate the spectrum and abundance of massive spin-2 particles that results from inflation on a hilltop potential. We conclude that CGPP might provide a viable mechanism for the generation of massive spin-2 particle dark matter during inflation, and we identify the favorable region of parameter space in terms of the spin-2 particle’s mass and the reheating temperature. As a secondary product of our work, we identify the conditions under which such theories admit ghost or gradient instabilities, and we thereby derive a generalization of the Higuchi bound to Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) spacetimes.},
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