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Final bound-state formation effect on dark matter annihilation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-06-22 v2

Abstract

If the annihilation products of dark matter (DM) are non-relativistic and couples directly to a light force mediator, the non-perturbation effect like final state bound state (FBS) formation and final state Sommerfeld (FSS) effect must be considered. Non-relativistic region of final particles will appear when there is small mass split between DM and products, so we study those effects in the degenerate region of mass (including kinematics forbidden case) using two specific models. We demonstrate that FBS effect will significantly modify the DM relic abundance comparing to the standard perturbation calculation in some mass split region. We emphasize that FBS effect is comparable to the FSS effect in those mass split. The conservation angular momentum are subtle considering FBS formation, in some cases there may be not ss-wave, so we use two models exhibit the different partial wave FBS effect contribution. We also show that the FBS formation with vector boson emission process also contributes in DM relic abundance, and first calculate the pp-wave FSS effect in the specific model.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2204.01091,
  title  = {Final bound-state formation effect on dark matter annihilation},
  author = {Xinyu Wang and Fucheng Zhong and Feng Luo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.01091},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Version to be published in Chinese Physics C. 23 pages, 13 figures

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