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General Freeze-in and Freeze-out

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-01-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We use the framework of relativistic and non-relativistic conformal field theories (CFT) to derive general results relevant for the production of weakly coupled and strongly coupled dark sectors through thermal interactions. Our result reproduce trivially known formulas for 2n2\to n processes and extend to general mnm\to n processes as well as interacting dark sectors. As concrete examples we consider freeze-in of a relativistic CFT coupled to the SM with contact interactions and derive Sommerfeld enhancement of non-relativistic cross-sections from the theory of fermions at unitarity.

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@article{arxiv.2107.14801,
  title  = {General Freeze-in and Freeze-out},
  author = {Michele Redi and Andrea Tesi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.14801},
  year   = {2022}
}

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21 pages, 1 figure