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most citedThe Waning of the WIMP? A Review of Models, Searches, and Constraints

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hep-ph2026

Spectator Dark Matter and the Higgs Portal

Stephen E. Henrich, Yann Mambrini, Keith A. Olive

Light scalar spectators generically acquire large stochastic fluctuations during inflation, which can lead to a catastrophic overproduction of dark matter if the resulting primordi…

astro-ph.CO2026

PBH runaway during reheating

Md Riajul Haque, Mathieu Gross, Mathieu Houlier +1

The growth of primordial black holes through the absorption of the surrounding plasma has recently been shown to exhibit a critical behavior during radiation domination. We extend…

hep-ph2026

Seesaw reheating

Yann Mambrini

We introduce the Seesaw Reheating scenario, in which the inflaton transfers its energy to a long-lived intermediate scalar associated with the spontaneous breaking of lepton number…

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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_χ\lesssi…

hep-ph2026

Searching for UFOs from the early universe: direct detection prospects for relativistically decoupling dark matter

Stephen E. Henrich, Yann Mambrini, Keith A. Olive

Particles that decouple relativistically from the Standard Model bath during reheating represent a versatile class of well-motivated cold dark matter candidates. In fact, ultrarela…

astro-ph.CO2026

When Primordial Black Holes Absorb During the Early Universe

Md Riajul Haque, Rajesh Karmakar, Yann Mambrini

We study the evolution of primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the early universe in the presence of a surrounding thermal bath. By incorporating the effects of thermal absorpti…