WIMPZILLAS!

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dc.creatorKolb, Edward W.
dc.creatorChung, Daniel J. H.
dc.creatorRiotto, Antonio
dc.date1998-10-14
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:05:25Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T04:05:25Z
dc.descriptionThere are many reasons to believe the present mass density of the universe is dominated by a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP), a fossil relic of the early universe. Theoretical ideas and experimental efforts have focused mostly on production and detection of thermal relics, with mass typically in the range a few GeV to a hundred GeV. Here, I will review scenarios for production of nonthermal dark matter. Since the masses of the nonthermal WIMPS are in the range 10^{12} to 10^{16} GeV, much larger than the mass of thermal wimpy WIMPS, they may be referred to as WIMPZILLAS. In searches for dark matter it may be well to remember that ``size does matter.''
dc.description23 page LaTeX paper with 7 eps files included with \epsf. Requires iopconf1.sty. For publication in ``DARK98: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Dark Matter in Astro and Particle Physics" Edited by H V Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and L. Baudis
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9810361
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9810361
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/48405
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleWIMPZILLAS!
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