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Annihilating Asymmetric Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-01-14 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

The relic abundance of particle and antiparticle dark matter (DM) need not be vastly different in thermal asymmetric dark matter (ADM) models. By considering the effect of a primordial asymmetry on the thermal Boltzmann evolution of coupled DM and anti-DM, we derive the requisite annihilation cross section. This is used in conjunction with CMB and Fermi-LAT gamma-ray data to impose a limit on the number density of anti-DM particles surviving thermal freeze-out. When the extended gamma-ray emission from the Galactic Center is reanalyzed in a thermal ADM framework, we find that annihilation into τ\tau leptons prefer anti-DM number densities 1-4%\% that of DM while the bb-quark channel prefers 50-100%\%.

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@article{arxiv.1408.5142,
  title  = {Annihilating Asymmetric Dark Matter},
  author = {Nicole F. Bell and Shunsaku Horiuchi and Ian M. Shoemaker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.5142},
  year   = {2015}
}

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7 pages, 5 figures

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