Coloured coannihilations: Dark matter phenomenology meets non-relativistic EFTs

Nov 6, 2018
35 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 02 (2019) 016
  • Published: Feb 4, 2019
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Abstract: (Springer)
We investigate the phenomenology of a simplified model with a Majorana fermion as dark matter candidate which interacts with Standard Model quarks via a colourcharged coannihilation partner. Recently it has been realized that non-perturbative dynamics, including the Sommerfeld effect, bound state formation/dissociation and thermal corrections, play an important role in coannihilations with coloured mediators. This calls for a careful analysis of thermal freeze-out and a new look at the experimental signatures expected for a thermal relic. We employ a state of the art calculation of the relic density which makes use of a non-relativistic effective theory framework and calculate the effective annihilation rates by solving a plasma-modified Schrödinger equation. We determine the cosmologically preferred parameter space and confront it with current experimental limits and future prospects for dark matter detection.
Note:
  • Published version, references and section on indirect detection added
  • Beyond Standard Model
  • Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM
  • Effective Field Theories
  • Thermal Field Theory
  • new physics
  • effective field theory: nonrelativistic
  • fermion: Majorana
  • fermion: dark matter
  • dark matter: freeze-out
  • freeze-out: thermal