Lepton collider as a window to reheating via freezing in dark matter detection. Part I

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Lepton collider as a window to reheating via freezing in dark matter detection. Part I

Year : 2025

Publisher : Elsevier B.V.

Source Title : Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

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Abstract

We propose a methodology to infer the reheat temperature (TRH) of the Universe from the collider signal of freezing in dark matter (DM). We demonstrate it for the mono-γ signal at the electron-positron colliders, which indicates to a low-scale TRH, after addressing observed DM abundance, BBN, and other relevant constraints. The method can be used to correlate different reheating dynamics, DM models, and collider signals.