Title

A Non-Thermal WIMP Miracle

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Scott Watson, Syracuse University
Bobby Samir Acharya, Syracuse University
Gordon Kane, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Piyush Kumar, University of California - Berkeley

Document Type

Article

Date

9-4-2009

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

Light scalar fields with only gravitational strength couplings are typically present in UV complete theories of physics beyond the Standard Model. In the early universe it is natural for these fields to dominate the energy density, and their subsequent decay, if prior to BBN, will typically yield some dark matter particles in their decay products. In this paper we make the observation that a Non-thermal WIMP `Miracle' may result: that is, in the simplest solution to the cosmological moduli problem, non-thermally produced WIMPs can naturally account for the observed dark matter relic density. Such a solution may be generic in string theory compactifications.

Additional Information

6 pages, no figures, References added, minor errors corrected More informaton at http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.2430

Recommended Citation

Watson, Scott; Acharya, Bobby Samir; Kane, Gordon; and Kumar, Piyush, "A Non-Thermal WIMP Miracle" (2009). Physics - All Scholarship. 401.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/401

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org

Creative Commons License

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