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Neutrino forces and the Sommerfeld enhancement

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arxiv 2203.05455 v1 pith:7RVZ3V4B submitted 2022-03-10 hep-ph

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keywords enhancementsommerfeldneutrinoforcesannihilationbrieflycasescause
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The Sommerfeld enhancement plays an important role in dark matter (DM) physics, and can significantly enhance the annihilation cross section of non-relativistic DM particles. In this paper, we study the effect of neutrino forces, which are generated by the exchange of a pair of light neutrinos, on the Sommerfeld enhancement. We demonstrate that in certain cases, a neutrino force can cause a significant correction to the Sommerfeld enhancement. Models that can realise DM-neutrino interactions and sizeable Sommerfeld enhancement are also briefly discussed, together with the impacts on DM phenomenology of neutrino forces.

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  1. Effect of Cosmic Neutrino Background on the Dark Matter Self-interaction via Neutrino force

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    The cosmic neutrino background screens the neutrino-pair force between scalar dark matter particles for m_chi below the CnuB temperature, reshaping SIDM parameter space and eliminating Sommerfeld enhancement.

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