text: 92,87,1018161901090627584,933084565895286786,Dan Hooper,"In my new paper with Gordan Krnjaic (@GordanKrnjaic), Andrew Long & Sam McDermott, we identify a class of models in which the particle responsible for inflation is also the dark matter. We call it ""WIMPflation"". 2 birds with 1 stone! <LINK> #DarkMatter #cosmology @Aqeelhmed @GordanKrnjaic We worried about this, of course, but found that such potentials can arise in models in which the inflaton has a non-minimal coupling to gravity (ie McDonald and Learner) or in Kallosh and Linde's alpha-attractor scenario, just to name a couple of examples.",https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03308,"We propose a class of models in which a stable inflaton is produced as a thermal relic in the early universe and constitutes the dark matter. We show that inflaton annihilations can efficiently reheat the universe, and identify several examples of inflationary potentials that can accommodate all cosmic microwave background observables and in which the inflaton dark matter candidate has a weak scale mass. As a simple example, we consider annihilations that take place through a Higgs portal interaction, leading to encouraging prospects for future direct detection experiments. ",WIMPflation,2,"['In my new paper with Gordan Krnjaic (@GordanKrnjaic), Andrew Long &amp; Sam McDermott, we identify a class of models in which the particle responsible for inflation is also the dark matter. We call it ""WIMPflation"".\n2 birds with 1 stone!\n<LINK>\n#DarkMatter #cosmology', ""@Aqeelhmed @GordanKrnjaic We worried about this, of course, but found that such potentials can arise in models in which the inflaton has a non-minimal coupling to gravity (ie McDonald and Learner) or in Kallosh and Linde's alpha-attractor scenario, just to name a couple of examples.""]",18,07,547