Light dark photon dark matter from inflation.

J High Energy Phys

Department of Physics, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 2T8 Canada.

Published: December 2020

We discuss the possibility of producing a light dark photon dark matter through a coupling between the dark photon field and the inflaton. The dark photon with a large wavelength is efficiently produced due to the inflaton motion during inflation and becomes non-relativistic before the time of matter-radiation equality. We compute the amount of production analytically. The correct relic abundance is realized with a dark photon mass extending down to 10 eV.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7768992PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2020)170DOI Listing

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