Seminars IFIC

IFIC Seminar: Gravitational particle production and freeze-in at stronger coupling

por Oleg Lebedev (Helsinki Inst. of Physics)

Europe/Madrid
1001-Primera-1-1-1 - Paterna. Seminario (Universe)

1001-Primera-1-1-1 - Paterna. Seminario

Universe

60
Descripción

Gravitational particle production during and after inflation provides an irreducible background for dark matter studies. This brings predictivity of non-thermal dark matter models into question. I discuss a class of freeze-in models which are free of this problem and interpolate between WIMPs and FIMPs. Unlike the traditional freeze-in models, this framework can be probed through direct dark matter detection as well as via collider observables.