{"record_type":"pith_number_record","schema_url":"https://pith.science/schemas/pith-number/v1.json","pith_number":"pith:2016:VGHPJKCLPMW6SPTGOE37PTCTCY","short_pith_number":"pith:VGHPJKCL","schema_version":"1.0","canonical_sha256":"a98ef4a84b7b2de93e667137f7cc53161d5466a72ae96bbba3328b3d74f0fd9b","source":{"kind":"arxiv","id":"1612.09074","version":2},"attestation_state":"computed","paper":{"title":"Light Dark Matter through Assisted Annihilation","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"hep-ph","authors_text":"Tarak Nath Maity, Tirtha Sankar Ray, Ujjal Kumar Dey","submitted_at":"2016-12-29T08:47:06Z","abstract_excerpt":"In this paper we investigate light dark matter scenarios where annihilation to Standard Model particles at tree-level is kinematically forbidden. In such cases annihilation can be aided by massive Standard Model-like species, called {\\it assisters}, in the initial state that enhances the available phase space opening up novel tree-level processes. We investigate the feasibility of such non-standard {\\it assisted annihilation} processes to reproduce the observed relic density of dark matter. We present a simple scalar dark matter - scalar assister model where this is realised. We find that if t"},"verification_status":{"content_addressed":true,"pith_receipt":true,"author_attested":false,"weak_author_claims":0,"strong_author_claims":0,"externally_anchored":false,"storage_verified":false,"citation_signatures":0,"replication_records":0,"graph_snapshot":true,"references_resolved":false,"formal_links_present":false},"canonical_record":{"source":{"id":"1612.09074","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"metadata":{"license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2016-12-29T08:47:06Z","cross_cats_sorted":[],"title_canon_sha256":"f9c2c3ae15af75ad7fc660af409c42f40463a87e1eed265478890c3edc452f2a","abstract_canon_sha256":"76447aa29d42c550a0fa3d43fcb080bcbb28f8c6bd5bedac06cd7929e384f7cc"},"schema_version":"1.0"},"receipt":{"kind":"pith_receipt","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","algorithm":"ed25519","signed_at":"2026-05-18T00:48:00.739766Z","signature_b64":"sIHMja51BkHA+BAzlsZQERC2YkHyrCrJjkkVSbgcj+1sn74VsVbX7P4tt60bAFcZfTGQqM9RwJdk4Dgjm2EtAw==","signed_message":"canonical_sha256_bytes","builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1","receipt_version":"0.3","canonical_sha256":"a98ef4a84b7b2de93e667137f7cc53161d5466a72ae96bbba3328b3d74f0fd9b","last_reissued_at":"2026-05-18T00:48:00.739214Z","signature_status":"signed_v1","first_computed_at":"2026-05-18T00:48:00.739214Z","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54"},"graph_snapshot":{"paper":{"title":"Light Dark Matter through Assisted Annihilation","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"hep-ph","authors_text":"Tarak Nath Maity, Tirtha Sankar Ray, Ujjal Kumar Dey","submitted_at":"2016-12-29T08:47:06Z","abstract_excerpt":"In this paper we investigate light dark matter scenarios where annihilation to Standard Model particles at tree-level is kinematically forbidden. In such cases annihilation can be aided by massive Standard Model-like species, called {\\it assisters}, in the initial state that enhances the available phase space opening up novel tree-level processes. We investigate the feasibility of such non-standard {\\it assisted annihilation} processes to reproduce the observed relic density of dark matter. We present a simple scalar dark matter - scalar assister model where this is realised. We find that if t"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1612.09074","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"},"aliases":[{"alias_kind":"arxiv","alias_value":"1612.09074","created_at":"2026-05-18T00:48:00.739293+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"arxiv_version","alias_value":"1612.09074v2","created_at":"2026-05-18T00:48:00.739293+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"doi","alias_value":"10.48550/arxiv.1612.09074","created_at":"2026-05-18T00:48:00.739293+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_12","alias_value":"VGHPJKCLPMW6","created_at":"2026-05-18T12:30:48.956258+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_16","alias_value":"VGHPJKCLPMW6SPTG","created_at":"2026-05-18T12:30:48.956258+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_8","alias_value":"VGHPJKCL","created_at":"2026-05-18T12:30:48.956258+00:00"}],"events":[],"event_summary":{},"paper_claims":[],"inbound_citations":{"count":2,"internal_anchor_count":2,"sample":[{"citing_arxiv_id":"1907.04324","citing_title":"Dark Matter Energy Deposition and Production from the Table-Top to the Cosmos","ref_index":195,"is_internal_anchor":true},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2602.02678","citing_title":"Axion-Like Electrophilic Portal for Pion Dark Matter","ref_index":28,"is_internal_anchor":true}]},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"sample":[],"anchors":[]},"links":{"html":"https://pith.science/pith/VGHPJKCLPMW6SPTGOE37PTCTCY","json":"https://pith.science/pith/VGHPJKCLPMW6SPTGOE37PTCTCY.json","graph_json":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/VGHPJKCLPMW6SPTGOE37PTCTCY/graph.json","events_json":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/VGHPJKCLPMW6SPTGOE37PTCTCY/events.json","paper":"https://pith.science/paper/VGHPJKCL"},"agent_actions":{"view_html":"https://pith.science/pith/VGHPJKCLPMW6SPTGOE37PTCTCY","download_json":"https://pith.science/pith/VGHPJKCLPMW6SPTGOE37PTCTCY.json","view_paper":"https://pith.science/paper/VGHPJKCL","resolve_alias":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/resolve?arxiv=1612.09074&json=true","fetch_graph":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/VGHPJKCLPMW6SPTGOE37PTCTCY/graph.json","fetch_events":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/VGHPJKCLPMW6SPTGOE37PTCTCY/events.json","actions":{"anchor_timestamp":"https://pith.science/pith/VGHPJKCLPMW6SPTGOE37PTCTCY/action/timestamp_anchor","attest_storage":"https://pith.science/pith/VGHPJKCLPMW6SPTGOE37PTCTCY/action/storage_attestation","attest_author":"https://pith.science/pith/VGHPJKCLPMW6SPTGOE37PTCTCY/action/author_attestation","sign_citation":"https://pith.science/pith/VGHPJKCLPMW6SPTGOE37PTCTCY/action/citation_signature","submit_replication":"https://pith.science/pith/VGHPJKCLPMW6SPTGOE37PTCTCY/action/replication_record"}},"created_at":"2026-05-18T00:48:00.739293+00:00","updated_at":"2026-05-18T00:48:00.739293+00:00"}