Video URL
https://pirsa.org/19060045Relic abundance of light dark photon dark matter
APA
Agrawal, P. (2019). Relic abundance of light dark photon dark matter. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/19060045
MLA
Agrawal, Prateek. Relic abundance of light dark photon dark matter. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Jun. 27, 2019, https://pirsa.org/19060045
BibTex
@misc{ scivideos_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 for Theoretical Physics}, year = {2019}, month = {jun}, note = {PIRSA:19060045 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/index.php/pirsa/19060045}} }
Prateek Agrawal Harvard University
Abstract
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.