Coloured coannihilations: Dark matter phenomenology meets non-relativistic EFTs
Nov 6, 2018Citations per year
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
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