Cosmological gravitational particle production and its implications for cosmological relics

EW Kolb, AJ Long - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2024 - APS
Cosmological gravitational particle production (CGPP) is the creation of particles in an
expanding universe due solely to their gravitational interaction. These particles can play an …

Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

L Barack, V Cardoso, S Nissanke… - … and quantum gravity, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
70 AIM, UMR 7158, CEA/DRF, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Irfu/Service d'Astrophysique,
Centre de Saclay, FR-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Ultra high energy cosmic rays The intersection of the Cosmic and Energy Frontiers

A Coleman, J Eser, E Mayotte, F Sarazin… - Astroparticle …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present white paper is submitted as part of the “Snowmass” process to help inform the
long-term plans of the United States Department of Energy and the National Science …

The dawn of FIMP dark matter: a review of models and constraints

N Bernal, M Heikinheimo, T Tenkanen… - … Journal of Modern …, 2017 - World Scientific
We present an overview of scenarios where the observed Dark Matter (DM) abundance
consists of Feebly Interacting Massive Particles (FIMPs), produced nonthermally by the so …

Gravitational portals in the early Universe

S Clery, Y Mambrini, KA Olive, S Verner - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We consider the production of matter and radiation during reheating after inflation, restricting
our attention solely to gravitational interactions. Processes considered are the exchange of a …

Gravitational production of dark matter during reheating

Y Mambrini, KA Olive - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We consider the direct s-channel gravitational production of dark matter during the reheating
process. Independent of the identity of the dark matter candidate or its nongravitational …

Constraining the sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays across and above the ankle with the spectrum and composition data measured at the Pierre Auger …

AA Halim, P Abreu, M Aglietta, I Allekotte… - … of cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work we present the interpretation of the energy spectrum and mass composition data
as measured by the Pierre Auger Collaboration above 6× 1017 eV. We use an astrophysical …

Completely dark photons from gravitational particle production during the inflationary era

EW Kolb, AJ Long - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Starting with the de Broglie-Proca Lagrangian for a massive vector field, we
calculate the number density of particles resulting from gravitational particle production …

Effects of primordial black holes on dark matter models

P Gondolo, P Sandick, B Shams Es Haghi - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We investigate the effects of producing dark matter by the Hawking evaporation of primordial
black holes (PBHs) in scenarios that may have a second well-motivated dark matter …

Cosmological gravitational particle production of massive spin-2 particles

EW Kolb, S Ling, AJ Long, RA Rosen - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract The phenomenon of cosmological gravitational particle production (CGPP) is
expected to occur during the period of inflation and the transition into a hot big bang …