PIRSA:19060045

Relic abundance of light dark photon dark matter

Agrawal, P. (2019). Relic abundance of light dark photon dark matter. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/19060045

Agrawal, Prateek. Relic abundance of light dark photon dark matter. Perimeter Institute, Jun. 27, 2019, https://pirsa.org/19060045 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:19060045,
            doi = {10.48660/19060045},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/19060045},
            author = {Agrawal, Prateek},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {Relic abundance of light dark photon dark matter},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2019},
            month = {jun},
            note = {PIRSA:19060045 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Prateek Agrawal

Harvard University

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One of the leading hypotheses for dark matter is that it consists of bosonic particles with masses below the eV scale, such as axions, moduli and dark photons. Unlike spin-0 particles, spin-1 particles do not have a misalignment mechanism to produce the desired abundance of dark matter, and population of light dark photon dark matter has been an open question in cosmology. I will present a novel mechanism to produce light spin-1 dark matter in cosmology. The dark matter energy density is initially stored in an axion-like field which is misaligned from its minimum during inflation. This energy density is efficiently transferred to dark photons using tachyonic particle production. This mechanism opens up extensive parameter space for dark photon dark matter.