TY - T1 - Hidden inflaton dark matter SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/300374 T3 - A1 - Beltran Almeida, Juan P.; Bernal, Nicolas; Rubio, Javier; Tenkanen, Tommi A2 - PB - Y1 - 2019 LA - eng AB - If cosmic inflation was driven by an electrically neutral scalar field stable on cosmological time scales, the field necessarily constitutes all or part of dark matter (DM). We study this possibility in a scenario where the inflaton field s resides in a hidden sector, which is coupled to the Standard Model sector through the Higgs portal lambda(hs)s(2) (HH)-H-dagger and non-minimally to gravity via xi(s)s(2)R. We study scenarios where the field s first drives inflation, then reheats the Universe... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - cosmology of theories beyond the SM; dark matter theory; inflation; particle physics - cosmology connection; INTERACTION CROSS-SECTION; COSMOLOGICAL SIMULATIONS; TOO BIG; CONSTRAINTS; MILKY; FAIL; 114 Physical sciences; 115 Astronomy, Space science N1 - PP - ER -