Non-thermal Production of PNGB Dark Matter and Inflation
Dec 18, 202023 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 03 (2021) 130
- Published: Mar 11, 2021
e-Print:
- 2012.10286 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- KUNS-2849
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Abstract: (arXiv)
A pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB) is a natural candidate of dark matter in that it avoids the severe direct detection bounds. We show in this paper that the pNGB has another different and interesting face with a higher symmetry breaking scale. Such large symmetry breaking is motivated by various physics beyond the standard model. In this case, the pNGB interaction is suppressed due to the Nambu-Goldstone property and the freeze-out production does not work even with sufficiently large portal coupling. We then study the pNGB dark matter relic abundance from the out-of-equilibrium production via feeble Higgs portal coupling. Further, a possibility is pursued the symmetry breaking scalar in the pNGB model plays the role of inflaton. The inflaton and dark matter are unified in a single field and the pNGB production from inflaton decay is inevitable. For these non-thermally produced relic abundance of pNGB dark matter and successful inflation, we find that the dark matter mass should be less than a few GeV in the wide range of the reheating temperature and the inflaton mass.Note:
- 23 pages, 8 figures, version to appear in JHEP
- Beyond Standard Model
- Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM
- dark matter: relic density
- dark matter: mass
- Goldstone particle: production
- inflaton: mass
- symmetry breaking: scale
- inflaton: decay
- temperature: reheating
- inflation
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