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We consider nonstandard cosmological models in which the late decay of a scalar field φ reheats the Universe to a low reheating temperature, between 5 MeV and the standard freeze-out temperature of neutralinos of mass m_χ. We point out that in these models all neutralinos with standard density Ωstd10^-5(100 GeV/m_χ) can have the density of cold dark matter, provided the right combination of the following two parameters can be achieved in the high-energy theory: the reheating temperature, and the ratio of the number of neutralinos produced per φ decay over the φ field mass. We present the ranges of these parameters where a combination of thermal and nonthermal neutralino production leads to the desired density, as functions of Ωstd and m_χ.
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