Thermal abundance of non-relativistic relics with Sommerfeld enhancement

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.05.009zbMATH Open1229.83081arXiv1008.2905OpenAlexW2002483073MaRDI QIDQ656633FDOQ656633

Authors: Hoernisa Iminniyaz, Mitsuru Kakizaki 

Publication date: 18 January 2012

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose an analytic treatment for computing the relic abundances of non-relativistic particles whose annihilation rate at chemical decoupling is increased by Sommerfeld enhancement. We find approximate rational functions that closely fit the thermal average of Sommerfeld-enhanced cross sections in the massless limit of force carriers for s- and p-wave annihilations. We demonstrate that, with the approximate thermally-averaged cross sections implemented, the standard analytic method for the final relic abundances provides accuracy to within 1% even for the case of Sommerfeld enhancement.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.2905

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zbMATH Keywords

dark matter

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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