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Eternal annihilations of light photinos

Astrophysics 2009-10-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In a class of low-energy supersymmetry models the photino is a natural dark matter candidate. We investigate the effects of post-freeze-out photino annihilations which can generate electromognetic cascades and lead to photo-destruction of 4^4He and subsequent overproduction of D and 3^3He. We also generalize our analysis to a generic dark matter component whose relic abundance is {\it not} determined by the cross section of the self-annihilations giving rise to electromagnetic showers.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9601096,
  title  = {Eternal annihilations of light photinos},
  author = {Edward W. Kolb and Antonio Riotto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9601096},
  year   = {2009}
}

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