Three exceptions in the calculation of relic abundances

Details Three exceptions in the calculation of relic abundances Three exceptions in the calculation of relic abundances

May 1991

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Physical Review D (Particles and Fields), Volume 43, Issue 10, 15 May 1991, pp.3191-3203

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The calculation of relic abundances of elementary particles by following their annihilation and freeze-out in the early Universe has become an important and standard tool in discussing particle dark-matter candidates. We find three situations, all occurring in the literature, in which the standard methods of calculating relic abundances fail. The first situation occurs when another particle lies near in mass to the relic particle and shares a quantum number with it. An example is a light squark with neutralino dark matter. The additional particle must be included in the reaction network, since its annihilation can control the relic abundance. The second situation occurs when the relic particle lies near a mass threshold. Previously, annihilation into particles heavier than the relic particle was considered kinematically forbidden, but we show that if the mass difference is ~5-15 %, these ``forbidden'' channels can dominate the cross section and determine the relic abundance. The third situation occurs when the annihilation takes place near a pole in the cross section. Proper treatment of the thermal averaging and the annihilation after freeze-out shows that the dip in relic abundance caused by a pole is not nearly as sharp or deep as previously thought.

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