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Zero-Range Effective Field Theory for Resonant Wino Dark Matter II. Coulomb Resummation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-02-28 v2

Abstract

Near a critical value of the wino mass where there is a zero-energy S-wave resonance at the neutral-wino-pair threshold, low-energy winos can be described by a zero-range effective field theory (ZREFT) in which the winos interact nonperturbatively through a contact interaction and charged winos also have electromagnetic interactions. At energies near the wino-pair thresholds, the Coulomb interaction from photon exchange between charged winos must also be treated nonperturbatively. The parameters of ZREFT can be determined by matching wino-wino scattering amplitudes calculated by solving the Schr\"odinger equation for winos interacting through a potential due to the exchange of electroweak gauge bosons. With Coulomb resummation, ZREFT at leading order gives a good description of the low-energy two-body observables for winos.

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@article{arxiv.1708.07155,
  title  = {Zero-Range Effective Field Theory for Resonant Wino Dark Matter II. Coulomb Resummation},
  author = {Eric Braaten and Evan Johnson and Hong Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.07155},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

46 pages, 21 figures. Corrected typos in version 1. Published version in JHEP