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arxiv: astro-ph/0103452 · v2 · submitted 2001-03-27 · 🌌 astro-ph · hep-ph

Kinetic decoupling of neutralino dark matter

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After neutralinos cease annihilating in the early Universe, they may still scatter elastically from other particles in the primordial plasma. At some point in time, however, they will eventually stop scattering. We calculate the cross sections for neutralino elastic scattering from standard-model particles to determine the time at which this kinetic decoupling occurs. We show that kinetic decoupling occurs above a temperature $T\sim$ MeV. Thereafter, neutralinos act as collisionless cold dark matter.

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