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Breit-Wigner Enhancement Considering the Dark Matter Kinetic Decoupling

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-28 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

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 1/R21/R^2) 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 XfXfXf\to Xf is not efficient to keep dark matter in kinetic equilibrium, and the kinetic decoupling temperature TkdT_{kd} is comparable to the chemical decoupling temperature TfO(10)GeVT_f\sim O(10) GeV. The reduction of the relic density after TkdT_{kd} is significant and leads to a limited enhancement factor O(102)\sim O(10^2). 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}
}
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