Pith. sign in

REVIEW 3 cited by

Misalignment & Co.: (Pseudo-)scalar and vector dark matter with curvature couplings

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

Re-run · record.json Download PDF Read on arXiv ↗

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 1905.09836 v2 pith:4MQ477ZI submitted 2019-05-23 hep-ph astro-ph.CO

Gonzalo Alonso Álvarez , Joerg Jaeckel , Thomas Hugle This is my paper · ORCID
classification hep-phastro-ph.CO
keywords darkdensitymattermisalignmentcouplingsevolutionfluctuationsmechanism
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal
0 comments
read the original abstract

Motivated by their potential role as dark matter, we study the cosmological evolution of light scalar and vector fields non-minimally coupled to gravity. Our focus is on a situation where the dominant contribution to the energy density arises from the misalignment mechanism. In addition, we also discuss the possibility that dark matter is generated in a stochastic scenario or from inflationary fluctuations. Even small deviations in the non-minimal couplings from the standard scenarios lead to significant qualitative and quantitative changes. This is due to the curvature-coupling driven superhorizon evolution of the homogeneous field and the non-zero momentum modes during inflation. Both the relic density yield and the large-scale density fluctuations are affected. For the misalignment mechanism, this results in a weakening of the isocurvature constraints and opens up new viable regions of parameter space.

Discussion (0). Continue with ORCID to comment.

Forward citations

Cited by 3 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score. Full citation record

  1. Darkly Charged ALPs

    hep-ph 2026-07 accept novelty 7.0 of 10

    Darkly charged ALPs (DALPs) forbid all d=5 ALP-SM operators and admit only two leading d=6 operators (Higgs portal and hypercharge portal), with distinct collider, cooling, and dark-matter phenomenology.

  2. Feebly-Interacting Peccei-Quinn Model

    hep-ph 2024-12 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

    A feebly-interacting PQ scalar with large wave-function renormalization can generate a large axion decay constant while keeping all mass scales near the TeV scale, predicting a light PQ Higgs and new dark matter scenarios.

  3. Black-hole hair from vector dark matter accretion

    gr-qc 2025-06 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    A Schwarzschild black hole accreting from a bath of vector dark matter develops a nontrivial Proca field profile, with density amplified by up to 10^7 near the horizon and mass accretion rates reaching tens of solar m...

Pith tools