Breit-Wigner Enhancement Considering the Dark Matter Kinetic Decoupling
Abstract
In the paper we study the Breit-Wigner enhancement of dark matter (DM) annihilation considering the kinetic decoupling in the evolution of DM freeze-out at the early universe. Since the DM temperature decreases much faster (as ) after kinetic decoupling than that in kinetic equilibrium (as 1/R) we find the Breit-Wigner enhancement of DM annihilation rate after the kinetic decoupling will affect the DM relic density significantly. Focusing on the model parameters that trying to explain the anomalous cosmic positron/electron excesses observed by PAMELA/Fermi/ATIC we find the elastic scattering is not efficient to keep dark matter in kinetic equilibrium, and the kinetic decoupling temperature is comparable to the chemical decoupling temperature . The reduction of the relic density after is significant and leads to a limited enhancement factor . Therefore it is difficult to explain the anomalous positron/electron excesses in cosmic rays by DM annihilation and give the correct DM relic density simultaneously in the minimal Breit-Wigner enhancement model.
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@article{arxiv.1106.6027,
title = {Breit-Wigner Enhancement Considering the Dark Matter Kinetic Decoupling},
author = {Xiao-Jun Bi and Peng-Fei Yin and Qiang Yuan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.6027},
year = {2015}
}