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| author | Redi, Michele Tesi, Andrea |
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| contents | We study the possibility to populate the dark sector through a phase transition. We will consider secluded dark sectors made of gauge theories, Randall-Sundrum scenarios and conformally coupled elementary particles. These sectors have in common the fact that the action is approximately Weyl invariant, implying that particle production due to time dependent background is strongly suppressed. In particular no significant production takes place during inflation allowing to avoid strong isocurvature constraints from CMB. As we will show, if the scale of inflation is large compared to the dynamical mass scale, these sectors automatically undergo a phase transition that in the simplest cases is controlled by the Hubble parameter. If the phase transition takes place during reheating or radiation the abundance obtained can be larger than particle production and production from the SM plasma. For phase transitions completing during radiation domination, the DM mass is predicted in the range $10^8$ GeV while larger values are required for phase transitions occurring during reheating. |
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| spellingShingle | Jump Starting the Dark Sector with a Phase Transition Redi, Michele Tesi, Andrea High Energy Physics - Phenomenology We study the possibility to populate the dark sector through a phase transition. We will consider secluded dark sectors made of gauge theories, Randall-Sundrum scenarios and conformally coupled elementary particles. These sectors have in common the fact that the action is approximately Weyl invariant, implying that particle production due to time dependent background is strongly suppressed. In particular no significant production takes place during inflation allowing to avoid strong isocurvature constraints from CMB. As we will show, if the scale of inflation is large compared to the dynamical mass scale, these sectors automatically undergo a phase transition that in the simplest cases is controlled by the Hubble parameter. If the phase transition takes place during reheating or radiation the abundance obtained can be larger than particle production and production from the SM plasma. For phase transitions completing during radiation domination, the DM mass is predicted in the range $10^8$ GeV while larger values are required for phase transitions occurring during reheating. |
| title | Jump Starting the Dark Sector with a Phase Transition |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03108 |