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Effects of gravitational particle production on Higgs portal dark matter

Published 8 Mar 2024 in hep-ph | (2403.05199v3)

Abstract: The gravitational interaction is ubiquitous and the effect of gravitational particle production necessarily contributes to the dark matter abundance. A simple candidate of dark matter is a scalar particle, whose only renormalizable interaction is the Higgs portal coupling. We show that the abundance of Higgs portal dark matter is significantly affected by the gravitational production effect. In particular, the gravitational production from the coherently oscillating inflaton field during the reheating often gives dominant contribution.

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