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Astronomy & Astrophysics
A. Arbey, J-F Coupechoux
Summary: This paper explores the possibility of a scalar field replacing dark matter, dark energy, and inflation by introducing a non-minimal coupling to gravity, a Mexican hat potential, and spontaneous symmetry breaking. The scalar field behaves like a dark fluid after inflation, mimicking the properties of both dark energy and dark matter.
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
(2021)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
XinXin Qi, Hao Sun
Summary: We discuss the possibility of unifying dark matter physics and inflation in the Z(5) model of two-component dark matter. Inflation driven by the two-component dark matter fields can be divided into two cases, singlet dark matter inflation and mixed dark matter inflation, where both two-component play the role of inflaton in the latter case. For dark matter, we focus on the mixed dark matter inflation case. We show a viable parameter space that satisfies the theoretical and dark matter relic density constraint in the case of successful inflation. It turns out that the dark matter density is dominated by the light component, which is consistent with the feature of the Z(5) model of two-component dark matter.
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
(2023)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Yuri Shtanov
Summary: This study gives an overview of the possibility of the scalaron in f (R) gravity theory constituting dark matter, and raises the issues of initial conditions and primordial spatial inhomogeneity, as well as proposes solutions.
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
(2022)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Amit Bhoonah, Joseph Bramante, Simran Nerval, Ningqiang Song
Summary: Studying gravitational wave signatures from first order phase transitions and oscillations after inflation reveals interesting connections between dark matter and scalar fields, with MHz-GHz gravitational wave sensitivity being crucial for discovering the heaviest dark sectors. The study also finds that scalar fields undergoing phase transitions and E-Model or T-Model potentials can lead to late-time dark matter mass boosts, potentially generating dark matter masses up to the Planck mass. Additionally, higher amplitude stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds correspond to the largest dark matter mass boosts in phase transitions and oscillating inflatons.
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
(2021)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mohammad Ali Gorji
Summary: This paper discusses how the seed of dark matter is generated from light spectator fields during inflation and explains how the energy density of these excited modes dominates the universe's energy density during the time of matter and radiation equality, playing the role of dark matter.
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
(2023)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Yi-Peng Wu, Elena Pinetti, Joseph Silk
Summary: If primordial black holes contribute more than 10% of the dark matter density, their energy density could be of the same order as baryons, suggesting a mutual origin. Baryogenesis can be triggered by a sharp transition in the rolling rate of inflaton, leading to large curvature perturbations for the formation of primordial black holes in single-field inflationary models. This requirement leads to potentially observable regimes for the contribution of primordial black holes to dark matter, the inferred mass range, the stochastic gravitational wave background frequency window, and the amplitude of the associated cosmic microwave background tensor-to-scalar ratio.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2022)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Alexandros Karam, Martti Raidal, Eemeli Tomberg
Summary: The study focuses on preheating in plateau inflation in a scenario similar to Higgs inflation, revealing that the oscillating inflaton field repeatedly returns to the plateau, leading to tachyonic production of inflaton particles. Moreover, it is demonstrated that a minimally coupled spectator scalar field can be more efficiently produced through a similar mechanism. The mechanism is solely gravitational and the scalar field mass can be as high as 10^13 GeV, making it a candidate for superheavy dark matter.
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
(2021)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Wei Cheng, Ligong Bian, Yu-Feng Zhou
Summary: In this paper, a generalized natural inflation model is proposed to study axionlike particle inflation and dark matter. With two additional parameters, the model can achieve small-field inflation and the axionlike particle inflaton can serve as a dark matter candidate in certain parameter spaces. This model considers cosmic microwave background and other cosmological observation limits.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mar Bastero-Gil, Antonio Torres Manso
Summary: We present a supersymmetric extension of a unified model for inflation and Dark Matter, which is based on the incomplete decay of the inflaton field into right-handed neutrino pairs. By imposing a discrete interchange symmetry on the inflaton and right-handed neutrinos, stability of the inflaton field at the global minimum is ensured, while still allowing partial decay and reheating of the Universe. Compatibility with inflationary predictions, BBN bounds, and obtaining the right DM abundance typically requires large couplings to the neutrino sector.
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
(2021)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Katherine Freese, Martin Wolfgang Winkler
Summary: The hot big bang is believed to be the origin of all matter and radiation in the Universe. Primordial nucleosynthesis provides strong evidence for the existence of a hot plasma in the early Universe. This paper describes a scenario in which dark matter can be formed around or even after primordial nucleosynthesis in a second big bang, called the dark big bang. The dark big bang occurs through a phase transition in the dark sector.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ogan Ozsoy, Zygmunt Lalak
Summary: The study investigates a mechanism within string theory inspired models of inflation for producing primordial black holes and a gravitational wave background, presenting an example of axion inflation that matches CMB observations and generates a population of light PBHs that can explain dark matter. The resulting GW signal inherits specific properties of its scalar sources, potentially allowing for distinguishing this mechanism from other inflationary scenarios and astrophysical backgrounds.
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
(2021)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Meng -Xiang Lin, Evan McDonough, J. Colin Hill, Wayne Hu
Summary: Early dark energy (EDE) has a localized cosmological role around matter-radiation equality to resolve the Hubble tension, but it introduces a coincidence problem. This problem may be resolved by introducing an early dark sector (EDS) where the dark matter mass depends on the EDE scalar field. An EDS model with a flat potential can naturally resolve the EDE coincidence problem without fine-tuning. The trigger EDS model performs well in resolving the Hubble tension and achieves a Hubble constant of 71.2 km/s/Mpc.
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Mikhail Shaposhnikov, Andrey Shkerin, Inar Timiryasov, Sebastian Zell
Summary: This passage discusses a novel mechanism for producing singlet fermions in the early Universe through gravity-induced interactions. These fermions can act as dark matter particles and are applicable to a wide range of dark matter particle masses. The potential observational consequences of producing keV-scale dark matter in this way, particularly for right-handed neutrinos, are also explored. The authors suggest that determining the momentum distribution of primordial dark matter may shed light on gravity-induced fermionic interactions.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2021)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Alberto Salvio, Simone Scollo
Summary: Extending the standard model with three right-handed neutrinos and a simple QCD axion sector can account for various phenomena, but in this model, dark matter does not originate from primordial black holes, but rather consists of a multi-component axion-sterile neutrino composition.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mayumi Aoki, Jisuke Kubo, Jinbo Yang
Summary: Utilizing dynamical chiral symmetry breaking in a QCD-like hidden sector to generate the Planck mass and the electroweak scale, the study proposes hidden pions as dark matter candidates. However, due to their super heavy mass (10^9 to 10^12 GeV) and extremely suppressed interaction with the visible sector, direct detection of these hidden pions is not feasible.
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
(2022)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Dario Bettoni, Asier Lopez-Eiguren, Javier Rubio
Summary: Using classical lattice simulations, this study investigates the symmetry breaking pattern and non-linear evolution of a spectator field coupled to gravity in the post-inflationary dynamics. The results show that the gradient energy density after the transition plays a significant role and grows steadily to equal the kinetic energy. This observation allows for the generic onset of radiation domination, but the produced spectrum is non-thermal.
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
(2022)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Basabendu Barman, Nicolas Bernal, Yong Xu, Oscar Zapata
Summary: This paper investigates the impact of the time-dependent decay width of the inflaton on the abundance of dark matter (DM) during the reheating period. The study demonstrates that the time-dependence of the decay width has different effects on the DM abundance compared to instantaneous or constant decay. Concrete examples of DM production through 2-to-2 scatterings of standard model particles or via inflaton scatterings or decays are provided to elucidate how the time-dependence influences the yield of DM.
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
(2022)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Fiorella Campo Verde Arbocco, Fabio A. Persia, Leila Zyla, Nicolas Bernal, Veronica C. Sasso, Flavia Santiano, Silvina Gomez, Flavia Bruna, Virginia Pistone-Creydt, Constanza Lopez-Fontana, Graciela A. Jahn, Maria Belen Hapon, Ruben W. Caron
Summary: This paper investigates the role of thyroid hormone in mammary gland differentiation and finds that hypothyroidism has a long-term impact on mammary function.
JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGINS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE
(2023)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Nicolas Bernal, Victor Munoz-Albornoz, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz, Pablo Villanueva-Domingo
Summary: This study improves constraints on primordial black holes using neutrino data and makes forecasts for next-generation neutrino and dark matter detectors. Smaller primordial black holes have already evaporated, while larger ones still exist in the universe.
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
(2022)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Grigoris Panotopoulos, Javier Rubio, Ilidio Lopes
Summary: In this study, we investigated the impact of nonlocal modifications of General Relativity on stellar structure. By using remnant stars, we were able to put qualitative constraints on a parameter that was not directly restricted by solar system tests. Our analysis of white dwarfs and strange quark stars candidates showed that the most stringent constraints come from strange quark stars, with three to four orders of magnitude tighter boundaries compared to white dwarfs.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D
(2023)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Nicolas Bernal, Yong Xu
Summary: This study investigates the impact of the evolution of radiation and inflaton energy densities on the freeze-out behavior of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) during reheating. The researchers find that the injection of entropy during reheating enlarges the parameter space compatible with the observed dark matter relic abundance, and the thermally averaged annihilation cross-section of WIMPs can be significantly lower than in the standard case.
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
(2022)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Valerio De Luca, Gabriele Franciolini, Antonio Riotto, Hardi Veermae
Summary: Combining constraints from microlensing and Lyman-alpha forest, this study provides a simple argument to rule out the possibility of large spatial clustering of stellar-mass primordial black holes at the time of formation, even by boosting their initial clustering to evade existing constraints.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2022)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Basabendu Barman, Nicolas Bernal, Nicklas Ramberg, Luca Visinelli
Summary: This paper investigates the angular direction and initial velocity of the axion field and its impact on its properties and formation. The kinetic misalignment mechanism plays a crucial role in the formation and detection signatures of axion miniclusters.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Basabendu Barman, Nicolas Bernal, Yong Xu, Oscar Zapata
Summary: In this study, we investigate graviton production during inflationary reheating through the process of Bremsstrahlung from the decay of the inflaton. We demonstrate that the differential decay rates for the 3-body process differ from previously reported results. Additionally, we calculate the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background formed during reheating and explore the prospects of detecting it using current and future GW detectors.
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
(2023)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Paola Arias, Nicolas Bernal, Jacek K. Osinski, Leszek Roszkowski
Summary: This study investigates the production of axion dark matter in a nonstandard cosmological history with a scalar field and varying decay rate. It shows that under certain conditions, the axion mass and the Hubble expansion rate can cross multiple times, allowing for a new phase of oscillation. The required axion mass for the present dark matter relic density can be significantly smaller than predicted by the standard history, which can be tested by upcoming experiments targeting the axion-photon coupling.
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
(2023)
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Physics, Particles & Fields
Asmaa Abada, Nicolas Bernal, Antonio E. Carcamo E. Hernandez, Sergey Kovalenko, Tessio B. de Melo, Takashi Toma
Summary: We propose a scotogenic model that generates neutrino masses through a three-loop seesaw. The model allows new particles to have masses at the TeV scale without fine-tuning the Yukawa couplings.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Gert Huetsi, Martti Raidal, Juan Urrutia, Ville Vaskonen, Hardi Veermaee
Summary: The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered bright early galaxies that contradict with the existence of cold dark matter. By considering power-law modifications to the matter power spectrum, the tension can be resolved if dark matter consists of 2 x 10-18 eV axions or if a fraction fPBH > 0.005 of dark matter is composed of compact heavy structures like primordial black hole clusters. However, in both cases, the star formation efficiency needs to be significantly enhanced.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Nicolas Bernal, Yasaman Farzan
Summary: We propose a model for nonstandard neutral current interaction (NSI) between neutrinos and matter fields, with arbitrary couplings to up and down quarks. Our model is based on a new U(1) gauge symmetry with a light gauge boson that mixes with the photon. We show that the couplings to the quarks can be adjusted to eliminate the contribution from NSI to coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering, and can also account for the discrepancy in the muon's anomalous magnetic dipole moment.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Marek Lewicki, Ville Vaskonen, Hardi Veermae
Summary: This study presents a new approach to studying bubble dynamics in fluids, which is suitable for cases where the commonly used perfect fluid description fails. The study finds that, for sufficiently strongly self-interacting fluids, local thermal equilibrium is maintained.
Review
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Dario Bettoni, Javier Rubio
Summary: The Quintessential inflation model provides a unified description of inflation and dark energy by introducing a scalar degree of freedom called the cosmon. This paper presents a comprehensive overview of this model, discussing its key ingredients and their implications. It explores the cosmological evolution, the embedding of quintessential inflation in a scalar-tensor framework, and the role of symmetries in the model. The paper also explores the phenomenological consequences of the model, such as its impact on neutrino masses, primordial structure formation, and the spontaneous symmetry breaking of internal symmetries.