Challenges for inflaton dark matter

We examine an intriguing possibility that a single field is responsible for both inflation and dark matter, focusing on the minimal set–up where inflation is driven by a scalar coupling to curvature. We study in detail the reheating process in this framework, which amounts mainly to particle product...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Oleg Lebedev, Jong-Hyun Yoon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-10-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269321005542