Gravitational production of superheavy baryonic and dark matter in quintessential inflation: nonconformally coupled case

Abstract

The gravitational production of superheavy dark matter is studied in the context of quintessential inflation. The superheavy particles, whose decay products are baryonic matter and are the responsible for the reheating of the universe after the end of the inflationary period, are not conformally coupled with gravity. On the contrary, dark matter is assumed to be conformally coupled with gravity. We show that the viability of these scenarios requires the mass of the superheavy dark matter to be greater than 8 x 10^{15} GeV.

arXiv comment9 pages, 4 figures. Version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1904.02393

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