Regenerating WIMPs in the light of direct and indirect detection

Details Regenerating WIMPs in the light of direct and indirect detection Regenerating WIMPs in the light of direct and indirect detection

2012-04-17

arxiv.org/abs/1204.3727v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

10 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

There are several ways to explain the dark matter relic density other than by the ordinary freeze-out scenario. For example, the freeze-in mechanism may constitute an alternative for generating the correct relic density for dark matter candidates whose predicted freeze-out abundance is too low due to a large total annihilation cross section. Here we show that although such a mechanism could explain why a dark matter candidate has the correct relic density, some candidates may still be ruled out because they would lead to a large gamma ray flux in dwarf spheroidal galaxies or a large elastic scattering rate in direct detection experiments. To investigate this scenario we examine neutralino dark matter in the MSSM. However our conclusions can be generalised to other types of annihilating DM candidates with a low relic density in the freeze-out scenario but which have their relic densities generated by some other mechanism.

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