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One-loop corrections to gaugino (co-)annihilation into quarks in the MSSM

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-06-18 v3

Abstract

We present the full O(αs)\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s) supersymmetric QCD corrections for gaugino annihilation and co-annihilation into light and heavy quarks in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). We demonstrate that these channels are phenomenologically relevant within the so-called phenomenological MSSM. We discuss selected technical details such as the dipole subtraction method in the case of light quarks and the treatment of the bottom quark mass and Yukawa coupling. Numerical results for the (co-)annihilation cross sections and the predicted neutralino relic density are presented. We show that the impact of including the radiative corrections on the cosmologically preferred region of the parameter space is larger than the current experimental uncertainty from Planck data.

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@article{arxiv.1404.2931,
  title  = {One-loop corrections to gaugino (co-)annihilation into quarks in the MSSM},
  author = {B. Herrmann and M. Klasen and K. Kovarik and M. Meinecke and P. Steppeler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.2931},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

19 pages, 9 figures. Matches version published in Phys.Rev.D