Gravitationally Induced Particle Production and its Impact on the WIMP Abundance
arXiv:1505.02743 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2015.10.054
Abstract
A large set of independent astronomical observations have provided a strong evidence for nonbaryonic dark matter in the Universe. One of the most investigated candidates is an unknown long-lived Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) which was in thermal equilibrium with the primeval plasma. Here we investigate the WIMP abundance based on the relativistic kinetic treatment for gravitationally induced particle production recently proposed in the literature (Lima \& Baranov, Phys. Rev. D {\bf 90}, 043515, 2014). The new evolution equation is deduced and solved both numerically and also through a semi-analytical approach. The predictions of the WIMP observables are discussed and compared with the ones obtained in the standard approach.
15 pages, 4 figures, discussion added in section 4. Accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B
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