Three-Body Annihilation of Neutralinos Below Two-Body Thresholds
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v3 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
We calculate the cross section for s-wave neutralino annihilation to three-body final states below the W^+ W^- and t-bar t thresholds. Such three-body channels may dominate the annihilation cross section if the neutralino mass is not too much less than m_t and m_W respectively. Furthermore, because neutrinos produced in these channels are much more energetic than those from the or tau^+ tau^- channels, they can dominate the energetic-neutrino fluxes from neutralino annihilation in the Sun or Earth far below these thresholds and significantly enhance the neutrino signal in certain regions of the supersymmetric parameter space.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9805383,
title = {Three-Body Annihilation of Neutralinos Below Two-Body Thresholds},
author = {Xuelei Chen and Marc Kamionkowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9805383},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
19 pages, 8 postscript figures, use JHEP.cls