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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
卷 101, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.063503
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- NSF [PHY-1720174]
Freeze-out or freeze-in during a period of early matter domination can yield the correct dark matter abundance for small values of the velocity-averaged annihilation cross section, (f) < 3 x 10(-26) cm(3) s(-1). However, in a generic nonstandard thermal history, such a period is typically preceded by other phases. Here, we study production of dark matter in a simple postinflationary history where a radiation-dominated phase after reheating is followed by an epoch of early matter domination. Focusing on the freeze-in regime, we show that dark matter production prior to early matter domination can dominate the relic abundance in large parts of the parameter space, including weak scale dark matter masses, and the allowed regions are highly dependent on the entire postinflationary history. Moreover, for a very broad range of (f) spanning over several decades, dark matter particles can start in chemical equilibrium early on and decouple during early matter domination, thereby rendering the relic abundance essentially independent of (f). We briefly discuss connections to different observables as a possible means to test the elusive freeze-in scenario in this case.
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