Non-thermal WIMPs as Dark Radiation

摘要

It has been thought that only light species could behave as radiation and account for the dark radiation observed recently by Planck, WMAP9, South Pole and ATACAMA telescopes. In this work we will show GeV scale WIMPs can plausibly account for the dark radiation as well. Heavy WIMPs might mimic the effect of a half neutrino species if some fraction of them are produced non-thermally after their thermal freeze-out. In addition, we will show how BBN, CMB and Structure Formation bounds might be circumvented.