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Thermal effects on Dark Matter production during cosmic reheating

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The relic abundance of Dark Matter (DM) produced via thermal freeze-in is sensitive to the thermal history during and after cosmic reheating. In minimal models, this opens up the possibility to make predictions for collider observables by combining the requirement to match the DM relic abundance with observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). We assess the impact of thermal corrections to the rate of cosmic reheating and the rate of thermal DM production on CMB observables and the relic abundance. We find that such corrections are generally small in the regime where they can be computed by means of finite-temperature field theory. We construct counter-examples where this general rule is violated.

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  • Observing Cosmic Reheating with the expanded Simons Observatory astro-ph.CO · 2026-06-10 · unverdicted · none · ref 79 · internal anchor

    Expanded Simons Observatory could measure reheating temperature and inflaton-gluon coupling to a few percent in QCD-driven warm inflation if r=0.01 primordial gravitational waves are found.

  • Neutron stars as thermometers for reheating induced dipole dark matter hep-ph · 2026-07-01 · unverdicted · none · ref 39 · internal anchor

    Dipole dark matter produced by freeze-out or freeze-in, including entropy dilution from reheating, can be probed via neutron star heating due to momentum-dependent electromagnetic interactions.