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WIMPs with Enhanced Annihilation from a Feebly Interacting Unstable Partner
Chance Hoskinson, Pearl Sandick, Barmak Shams Es Haghi
Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) constitute one of the best-motivated dark matter (DM) candidates. In this study, we consider a simple extension of the WIMP paradigm in…
Phenomenology of Inflaton-Driven Early QCD Confinement and Solution to Axion Isocurvature Problem
Evangelos I. Sfakianakis, Barmak Shams Es Haghi, Katherine Freese
We study the phenomenology of early QCD confinement during inflation, driven by a direct coupling between the inflaton and Standard Model gluons. This coupling dynamically raises t…
Isocurvature-Free QCD Axion Dark Matter from Inflaton-Driven Early QCD: the Necessity of Inflationary Plateaus
Katherine Freese, Evangelos I. Sfakianakis, Barmak Shams Es Haghi
A direct coupling between the inflaton and Standard Model gluons can dynamically raise the QCD confinement scale during inflation, making the axion temporarily heavy and suppressin…
Probing High Reheating Temperatures by Direct Detection Experiments
Barmak Shams Es Haghi
We argue that the benchmark freeze in dark matter (DM) scenario for direct detection experiments, in which a DM candidate interacts with the Standard Model (SM) through an ultralig…
Thermal Gravitons from Warm Inflation
Gabriele Montefalcone, Barmak Shams Es Haghi, Tao Xu +1
In warm inflation (WI), the persistent thermal bath that is sustained by dissipative interactions with the inflaton field produces a stochastic background of gravitational waves (G…
Setting up stasis with gravitational interactions
Andrew J. Long, Barmak Shams Es Haghi, Moira Venegas
An epoch known as cosmological stasis may have taken place in the early Universe. During matter-radiation stasis, a population of non-relativistic particles with different masses g…