5 papers
Gravitational ultra-relativistic freeze-out during general reheating
Mathieu Gross, Stephen E. Henrich, Fotis Koutroulis
We investigate ultrarelativistic freeze-out (UFO) in the context of generic reheating scenarios. While the standard WIMP dark matter paradigm has been extensively studied, UFO has…
When direct detection constrains reheating temperature: freeze-in with stronger couplings and inflaton-seeded freeze-in
Xavier Bertou, Olivier Deligny, Mathieu Gross +2
Recent results from the DAMIC-M and PandaX collaborations have excluded the standard freeze-in production of dark matter for masses in the range $3~\mathrm{MeV} \lesssim m_Ï\lesss…
Burdening (or not) gravitational waves in the presence of primordial black holes
Mathieu Gross, Md Riajul Haque, Yann Mambrini
We present the spectrum of primordial gravitational wave (GW) expected from the presence of primordial black holes (PBH) and inflaton in the early Universe. For the first time, we…
Phenomenological Constraints on Higgs reheating
Yann Cado, Mathieu Gross, Yann Mambrini +1
In many models of inflation, reheating is realized through a coupling between the inflaton and the Higgs boson. Often, the mass of the inflaton is of order GeV determined…
Ultra-Relativistic Freeze-Out During Reheating
Stephen E. Henrich, Mathieu Gross, Yann Mambrini +1
We perform a thorough investigation of (ultra)relativistic freeze-out (UFO) during reheating. While the standard WIMP (non-relativistic freeze-out) and FIMP (freeze-in) paradigms h…