Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 103, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.063526
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [17H02890, 17H06359, 19F19313]
- World Premier International Research Center Initiative, MEXT, Japan
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19F19313] Funding Source: KAKEN
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This model presents a mechanism for the production of vector dark matter at the end of inflation, with couplings introduced to prevent energy decay. It predicts the formation of cosmic strings at the end of inflation and can explain the observed abundance of dark matter.
We present a scenario of vector dark matter production from symmetry breaking at the end of inflation. In this model, the accumulated energy density associated with the quantum fluctuations of the dark photon accounts for the present energy density of dark matter. The inflaton is a real scalar field while a heavy complex scalar field, such as the waterfall of hybrid inflation, is charged under the dark gauge field. After the heavy field becomes tachyonic at the end of inflation, rolling rapidly toward its global minimum, the dark photon acquires mass via the Higgs mechanism. To prevent the decay of the vector field energy density during inflation, we introduce couplings between the inflaton and the gauge field such that the energy is pumped to the dark sector. The setup can generate the observed dark matter abundance for a wide range of the dark photon's mass and with the reheat temperature around 10(12) GeV. The model predicts the formation of cosmic strings at the end of inflation with the tensions which are consistent with the CMB upper bounds.
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