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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
29 pages. v2: clarifications added, published version