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Re-derived overclosure bound for the inert doublet model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-08-17 v2

Abstract

We apply a formalism accounting for thermal effects (such as modified Sommerfeld effect; Salpeter correction; decohering scatterings; dissociation of bound states), to one of the simplest WIMP-like dark matter models, associated with an "inert" Higgs doublet. A broad temperature range T ~ M/20...M/10^4 is considered, stressing the importance and less-understood nature of late annihilation stages. Even though only weak interactions play a role, we find that resummed real and virtual corrections increase the tree-level overclosure bound by 1...18%, depending on quartic couplings and mass splittings.

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@article{arxiv.1706.01894,
  title  = {Re-derived overclosure bound for the inert doublet model},
  author = {S. Biondini and M. Laine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.01894},
  year   = {2017}
}

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29 pages. v2: clarifications added, published version

R2 v1 2026-06-22T20:10:57.224Z