The first three seconds: a review of possible expansion histories of the early universe

R Allahverdi, MA Amin, A Berlin, N Bernal… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
It is commonly assumed that the energy density of the Universe was dominated by radiation
between reheating after inflation and the onset of matter domination 54,000 years later …

Severely constraining dark-matter interpretations of the 21-cm anomaly

A Berlin, D Hooper, G Krnjaic, SD McDermott - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
The EDGES Collaboration has recently reported the detection of a stronger-than-expected
absorption feature in the global 21-cm spectrum, centered at a frequency corresponding to a …

Gravitational production of vector dark matter

A Ahmed, B Grzadkowski, A Socha - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract A model of vector dark matter that communicates with the Standard Model only
through gravitational interactions has been investigated. It has been shown in detail how …

Thermal dark matter from a highly decoupled sector

A Berlin, D Hooper, G Krnjaic - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
It has recently been shown that if the dark matter is in thermal equilibrium with a sector that is
highly decoupled from the Standard Model, it can freeze out with an acceptable relic …

Ultraviolet freeze-in and non-standard cosmologies

N Bernal, F Elahi, C Maldonado… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
A notable feature of UV freeze-in is that the relic density is strongly dependent on the highest
temperatures of the thermal bath, and a common assumption is that the relevant" highest …

Multiscatter stellar capture of dark matter

J Bramante, A Delgado, A Martin - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
Dark matter may be discovered through its capture in stars and subsequent annihilation. It is
usually assumed that dark matter is captured after a single scattering event in the star; …

Dissipative dark cosmology: From early matter dominance to delayed compact objects

J Bramante, CV Cappiello, M Diamond, JL Kim, Q Liu… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We demonstrate a novel mechanism for producing dark compact objects and black holes
through a dark sector, where all the dark matter can be dissipative. Heavy dark sector …

Hidden photon and axion dark matter from symmetry breaking

K Nakayama, W Yin - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract A light hidden photon or axion-like particle is a good dark matter candidate and
they are often associated with the spontaneous breaking of dark global or gauged U (1) …

Chilly dark sectors and asymmetric reheating

P Adshead, Y Cui, J Shelton - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016 - Springer
A bstract In a broad class of theories, the relic abundance of dark matter is determined by
interactions internal to a thermalized dark sector, with no direct involvement of the Standard …

Cosmological signals of a mirror twin Higgs

N Craig, S Koren, T Trott - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
A bstract We investigate the cosmology of the minimal model of neutral naturalness, the
mirror Twin Higgs. The softly-broken mirror symmetry relating the Standard Model to its twin …