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Light scalaron as dark matter

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arxiv 2105.02662 v3 pith:VXYUHGQM submitted 2021-05-06 hep-ph astro-ph.COgr-qc

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A new cosmological scenario is proposed in which a light scalaron of $f (R)$ gravity plays the role of dark matter. In this scenario, the scalaron initially resides at the minimum of its effective potential while the electroweak symmetry is unbroken. At the beginning of the electroweak crossover, the evolving expectation value of the Higgs field triggers the evolution of the scalaron due to interaction between these fields. After the electroweak crossover, the oscillating scalaron can represent cold dark matter. Its current energy density depends on a single free parameter, the scalaron mass $m$, and the value $m \simeq 4 \times 10^{-3}\, \text{eV}$ is required to explain the observed dark-matter abundance. Larger mass values would be required in scenarios where the scalaron is excited before the electroweak crossover.

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    hep-th 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 7.0 of 10

    In the Jordan-frame treatment of f(R) gravity the scalaron-photon effective coupling vanishes for m much less than loop-particle masses because the classical-trace diagrams cancel the Fujikawa anomaly term.

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    hep-ph 2025-09 unverdicted novelty 6.0 of 10

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  3. Interactions of the scalaron dark matter in $f (R)$ gravity

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    For scalaron dark matter in f(R) gravity, the two-photon decay rate is confirmed at one loop, the resulting extragalactic background spectrum is derived, and the thermal scalaron abundance is shown to be negligible.

  4. Universality in static spherically symmetric solutions of f(R) gravity

    gr-qc 2024-12 conditional novelty 4.0 of 10

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