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EvoEMD: cosmic evolution with an early matter-dominated era

Authors :
Dutra, Maíra
Wu, Yongcheng
Publication Year :
2021

Abstract

We present EvoEMD, a framework to calculate the evolution of cosmic relics in a Universe with an early matter-dominated (EMD) era. There are mainly two aspects to consider in this regard. First, an EMD era changes the Hubble expansion rate with respect to the standard radiation-dominated (RD) universe. Second, when the EMD era ends, the out-of-equilibrium decay of the dominant matter component may reheat the thermal bath and dilute cosmic relics. We briefly introduce the cosmology with an EMD era, and present how it is implemented in the EvoEMD framework. Users can study the coupled evolution of different interacting species in an EMD or RD universe. Two important cosmic relics are dark matter and a net lepton number. In order to show the capabilities of EvoEMD, we include simple examples of dark matter produced via freeze-out and freeze-in, and also of leptogenesis. Moreover, users can modify the model files in order to explore different new physics scenarios. EvoEMD is hosted on Github at \url{https://github.com/ycwu1030/EvoEMD}.<br />Comment: 29 pages, 7 figures, references added, new figures. Matches the journal version

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2111.15665
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dark.2023.101198