Coleman-Weinberg dynamics of ultralight scalar dark matter and GeV-scale right-handed neutrinos

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Acknowledgement

We thank Akshay Ghalsasi and especially Brian Batell for useful discussions about thermal misalignment in the context of the Higgs portal. Mark Wise supplied helpful comments on the possibility of parametric resonances. We acknowledge useful discussions with Junwu Huang, Maxim Pospelov, Marilena Loverde, Michael Ratz, and Yohei Ema about initial conditions after inflation. We thank Brian Batell, Akshay Ghalsasi, Peizhi Du, Michael Ratz, and Mark Wise for feedback on the manuscript. We acknowledge the hospitality of the Simons Center for Physics and Geometry and the Aspen Center for Physics (which is supported by National Science Foundation grant PHY-2210452) while part of this work was being completed.

Funding

This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics, under Award Number DE-SC0011632 and by the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics. RP is supported by the Neutrino Theory Network under Award Number DEAC02-07CH11359, the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics, under Award Number DE-SC0011632, and by the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics.