Accurate Neutralino Relic Density Computations in Supergravity Models

Details Accurate Neutralino Relic Density Computations in Supergravity Models Accurate Neutralino Relic Density Computations in Supergravity Models

1993-04-05

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9304216v1

Phys.Rev. D48 (1993) 2766-2776

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

15 pages, 9 figures (available upon request as uuencoded file or separate ps files), tex (harvmac) CTP-TAMU-14/93

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.48.2766

We investigate the question of the proper thermal averaging of neutralino annihilation amplitudes which possess poles and thresholds, as they impact on the calculated neutralino relic density and therefore on the cosmological viability of supersymmetric models. We focus on two typical resonances, namely the $Z$ boson and the lightest Higgs boson ($h$). In the context of supergravity models with radiative electroweak symmetry breaking, an exploration of the whole parameter space of the model is possible and the overall relevance of these sophisticated analyses can be ascertained. As an example we chose the minimal $SU(5)$ supergravity model since the presence of such poles is essential to obtain a cosmologically acceptable model. We find that the proper thermal averaging is important for individual points in parameter space and that the fraction of cosmologically acceptable points is increased somewhat by the accurate procedure. However, qualitatively the new set of points is very similar to that obtained previously using the usual series approximations to the thermal average. We conclude that all phenomenological analyses based on the previously determined cosmologically allowed set remain valid.

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