Semi-annihilation of dark matter

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2010)109MaRDI QIDQ2451822zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francesco D'eramo, Jesse Thaler

Publication date 4 June 2014

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5912

zbMATH Keywords

beyond standard modelcosmology of theories beyond the SM

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boltzmann equations (35Q20) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Nuclear physics (81V35) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We show that the thermal relic abundance of dark matter can be affected by a new type of reaction: semi-annihilation. Semi-annihilation takes the schematic form X_i X_j -> X_k phi, where X_i are stable dark matter particles and phi is an unstable state. Such reactions are generically present when dark matter is composed of more than one species with "flavor" and/or "baryon" symmetries. We give a complete set of coupled Boltzmann equations in the presence of semi-annihilations, and study two toy models featuring this process. Semi-annihilation leads to non-trivial dark matter dynamics in the early universe, often dominating over ordinary annihilation in determining the relic abundance. This process also has important implications for indirect detection experiments, by enriching the final state spectrum from dark matter (semi-)annihilation in the Milky Way.

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