Kinetic decoupling of neutralino dark matter
Astrophysics
2009-12-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
After neutralinos cease annihilating in the early Universe, they may still scatter elastically from other particles in the primordial plasma. At some point in time, however, they will eventually stop scattering. We calculate the cross sections for neutralino elastic scattering from standard-model particles to determine the time at which this kinetic decoupling occurs. We show that kinetic decoupling occurs above a temperature MeV. Thereafter, neutralinos act as collisionless cold dark matter.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0103452,
title = {Kinetic decoupling of neutralino dark matter},
author = {Xuelei Chen and Marc Kamionkowski and Xinmin Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0103452},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
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