paper

Forbidden Freeze-In

arXiv:2003.13265

Abstract

We study the importance of a frozen-in dark matter production regime, where the dark matter particle is produced via kinematically forbidden decays that arise from significant thermal correction to the mass a mediator particle in the plasma.

7 pages, 4 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of Corfu Summer Institute 2019 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity"