Revisiting dark matter freeze-in and freeze-out through phase-space distribution

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/04/012MaRDI QIDQ5099240zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yong Du, F. Huang, Hao-lin Li, Yuanzhen Li, Jiang-Hao Yu

Publication date 31 August 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01267

zbMATH Keywords

dark matter theoryparticle physics-cosmology connectionphysics of the early universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boltzmann equations (35Q20) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Particle decays (81U90) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: We revisit dark-matter production through freeze-in and freeze-out by solving the Boltzmann equations at the level of the phase-space distribution $f(p,t)$. Using the $2o2$ annihilation and the $1o2$ decay processes for illustration, we compare the resulting dark-matter relic abundance with that from the number-density approach. In the transition regime between freeze-in and freeze-out, we find the difference can be quite significant, or even by orders of magnitude if the annihilation of dark-matter particles or the decaying mediator is neglected. The freeze-in production in the $2o2$ and the $1o2$ processes can also result in non-thermal phase-space distributions, or even multi-modal ones with out-of-equilibrium decay, which can potentially affect structure formation at late times. We also investigate how elastic scatterings can distort such non-thermal distributions.

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