Connecting CMB anisotropy and cold dark matter phenomenology via reheating

TL;DR

This paper links dark matter phenomenology with CMB anisotropy by analyzing the reheating phase after inflation, constraining dark matter parameters through CMB data and inflationary models.

Contribution

It establishes a correspondence between CMB power spectrum and reheating temperature, incorporating dark matter constraints during reheating.

Findings

Reheating temperature correlates with CMB power spectrum.

Dark matter parameters are constrained by inflationary models.

Reheating phase impacts dark matter abundance predictions.

Abstract

Understanding the properties of dark matter has proved to be one of the most challenging problems of particle phenomenology. In this paper, we have tried to understand the phenomenology of dark matter in light of very well understood properties of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy. To connect these two, inflation and its subsequent evolution known as the reheating phase play the important role. Following the previous analysis, we first established a one-to-one correspondence between the CMB power spectrum and the reheating temperature assuming the perturbative reheating scenario. Further by incorporating a possible dark matter candidate through the radiation annihilation process during reheating and the current value of dark matter abundance, we constrain the dark matter parameter space through the inflationary power spectrum for different inflationary models.