Gravitational production of dark photon dark matter with mass generated by the Higgs mechanism

Abstract

We study the gravitational production of dark photon dark matter during inflation, when dark photons acquire mass by the Higgs mechanism. In the previous study, it was assumed that the dark photon has a Stückelberg mass, or a mass generated by the Higgs mechanism with a sufficiently heavy Higgs boson. In this paper we consider a case in which the Higgs boson is not fully decoupled; the Higgs field changes its vacuum expectation value after inflation. Then, the dark photon mass also changes with time after inflation, and the time evolution of the longitudinal mode is different from the case with a Stückelberg mass. Consequently, the spectrum of the dark photon energy density can have two peaks at an intermediate scale and a small scale. We show that the dark photon can explain the dark matter if its current mass is larger than $6\mu \mathrm{eV}\times (H_I/10^{14}\mathrm{GeV}{)}^{-4}$ and smaller than $0.8\mathrm{GeV}\times (H_I/10^{14}\mathrm{GeV}{)}^{-3/2}$, with $H_I$ being the Hubble parameter during inflation. A higher mass is required if one considers a larger gauge coupling constant. The result for the Stückelberg mass can be reproduced in the limit of a small gauge coupling constant. We also comment on the constraints set by various conjectures in quantum gravity theory.

22 pages, 5 figures

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