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MadDM v.1.0: Computation of Dark Matter Relic Abundance Using MadGraph5

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-09-09 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We present MadDM v.1.0, a numerical tool to compute dark matter relic abundance in a generic model. The code is based on the existing MadGraph 5 architecture and as such is easily integrable into any MadGraph collider study. A simple Python interface offers a level of user-friendliness characteristic of MadGraph 5 without sacrificing functionality. MadDM is able to calculate the dark matter relic abundance in models which include a multi-component dark sector, resonance annihilation channels and co-annihilations. We validate the code in a wide range of dark matter models by comparing the relic density results from MadDM to the existing tools and literature.

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@article{arxiv.1308.4955,
  title  = {MadDM v.1.0: Computation of Dark Matter Relic Abundance Using MadGraph5},
  author = {Mihailo Backovic and Kyoungchul Kong and Mathew McCaskey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.4955},
  year   = {2014}
}

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35 pages, 6 figures