pith. machine review for the scientific record. sign in

arxiv: 1008.2905 · v2 · submitted 2010-08-17 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO · hep-ph

Recognition: unknown

Thermal abundance of non-relativistic relics with Sommerfeld enhancement

Authors on Pith no claims yet
classification 🌌 astro-ph.CO hep-ph
keywords enhancementsommerfeldabundancesanalyticapproximatecrossnon-relativisticrelic
0
0 comments X
read the original abstract

We propose an analytic treatment for computing the relic abundances of non-relativistic particles whose annihilation rate at chemical decoupling is increased by Sommerfeld enhancement. We find approximate rational functions that closely fit the thermal average of Sommerfeld-enhanced cross sections in the massless limit of force carriers for s- and p-wave annihilations. We demonstrate that, with the approximate thermally-averaged cross sections implemented, the standard analytic method for the final relic abundances provides accuracy to within 1% even for the case of Sommerfeld enhancement.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.