Dark Matter Production during the Thermalization Era

Abstract

We revisit the non-thermal dark matter (DM) production during the thermalization and reheating era after inflation. The decay of inflaton produces high-energy particles that are thermalized to complete the reheating of the Universe. Before the thermalization is completed, DM can be produced from a collision between the high-energy particles and/or the ambient plasma. We calculate the DM abundance produced from these processes for the case where the cross section of the DM production is proportional to the $n$-th power of the center of mass energy. We find that the collision between the high-energy particles is almost always dominant for $n\gtrsim 4$ while it is subdominant for $n\lesssim 2$. The production from the ambient plasma is dominant when $n\lesssim 3$ and the reheating temperature is of the order of or larger than the DM mass. The production from a collision between the high-energy particle and the ambient plasma is important for $n\lesssim 2$ and the reheating temperature is much lower than the DM mass.

11 pages, 3 figures; v2: footnote added, error in Eq. (28) corrected, conclusions unchanged

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