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Toward a full description of MeV dark matter decoupling: A self-consistent determination of relic abundance and <math display="inline"><msub><mi>N</mi><mi>eff</mi></msub></math>

Thermal dark matter at the MeV mass scale has its abundance set during the highly nontrivial epochs of neutrino decoupling and electron annihilation. The technical obstacles attached to solving Boltzmann equations of multiple interacting sectors being both relativistic and nonrelativistic have to-da...

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Autores principales: Chu, Xiaoyong, Kuo, Jui-Lin, Pradler, Josef
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.055022
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2810684
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author Chu, Xiaoyong
Kuo, Jui-Lin
Pradler, Josef
author_facet Chu, Xiaoyong
Kuo, Jui-Lin
Pradler, Josef
author_sort Chu, Xiaoyong
collection CERN
description Thermal dark matter at the MeV mass scale has its abundance set during the highly nontrivial epochs of neutrino decoupling and electron annihilation. The technical obstacles attached to solving Boltzmann equations of multiple interacting sectors being both relativistic and nonrelativistic have to-date prevented the full treatment of this problem. Here, for the first time, we calculate the freeze-out of light dark matter, taking into account the energy transfer between the dark sector, neutrinos, and the electromagnetically interacting plasma from annihilation and elastic scattering processes alike. We develop a numerically feasible treatment that allows to track photon and neutrino temperatures across freeze-out and to arrive at a precision prediction of <math display="inline"><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>N</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>eff</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></math> for arbitrary branching ratios of the dark matter annihilation channels. In addition, our treatment resolves for the first time the dark matter temperature evolution across freeze-out involving three sectors. It enters in the efficiency of velocity-dependent annihilation channels and for a flavor-blind <math display="inline"><mi>p</mi></math>-wave annihilation into electron- and neutrino-pairs of all generations, we find the present Planck data exclude a complex scalar dark matter particle of mass of <math display="inline"><msub><mi>m</mi><mi>ϕ</mi></msub><mo>≤</mo><mn>7</mn><mtext> </mtext><mtext> </mtext><mi>MeV</mi></math>.
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spelling cern-28106842023-02-04T05:49:01Zdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.106.055022http://cds.cern.ch/record/2810684engChu, XiaoyongKuo, Jui-LinPradler, JosefToward a full description of MeV dark matter decoupling: A self-consistent determination of relic abundance and <math display="inline"><msub><mi>N</mi><mi>eff</mi></msub></math>Astrophysics and AstronomyParticle Physics - PhenomenologyThermal dark matter at the MeV mass scale has its abundance set during the highly nontrivial epochs of neutrino decoupling and electron annihilation. The technical obstacles attached to solving Boltzmann equations of multiple interacting sectors being both relativistic and nonrelativistic have to-date prevented the full treatment of this problem. Here, for the first time, we calculate the freeze-out of light dark matter, taking into account the energy transfer between the dark sector, neutrinos, and the electromagnetically interacting plasma from annihilation and elastic scattering processes alike. We develop a numerically feasible treatment that allows to track photon and neutrino temperatures across freeze-out and to arrive at a precision prediction of <math display="inline"><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>N</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>eff</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></math> for arbitrary branching ratios of the dark matter annihilation channels. In addition, our treatment resolves for the first time the dark matter temperature evolution across freeze-out involving three sectors. It enters in the efficiency of velocity-dependent annihilation channels and for a flavor-blind <math display="inline"><mi>p</mi></math>-wave annihilation into electron- and neutrino-pairs of all generations, we find the present Planck data exclude a complex scalar dark matter particle of mass of <math display="inline"><msub><mi>m</mi><mi>ϕ</mi></msub><mo>≤</mo><mn>7</mn><mtext> </mtext><mtext> </mtext><mi>MeV</mi></math>.Thermal dark matter at the MeV mass-scale has its abundance set during the highly non-trivial epochs of neutrino decoupling and electron annihilation. The technical obstacles attached to solving Boltzmann equations of multiple interacting sectors being both relativistic and non-relativistic have to-date prevented the full treatment of this problem. Here, for the first time, we calculate the freeze-out of light dark matter, taking into account the energy transfer between the dark sector, neutrinos, and the electromagnetically interacting plasma from annihilation and elastic scattering processes alike. We develop a numerically feasible treatment that allows to track photon and neutrino temperatures across freeze-out and to arrive at a precision prediction of $N_{\rm eff}$ for arbitrary branching ratios of the dark matter annihilation channels. In addition, our treatment resolves for the first time the dark matter temperature evolution across freeze-out involving three sectors. It enters in the efficiency of velocity-dependent annihilation channels and for a flavor-blind $p$-wave annihilation into electron- and neutrino-pairs of all generations, we find the present Planck data excludes a complex scalar dark matter particle of mass of $m_\phi \leq 7$ MeV.arXiv:2205.05714oai:cds.cern.ch:28106842022-05-11
spellingShingle Astrophysics and Astronomy
Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Chu, Xiaoyong
Kuo, Jui-Lin
Pradler, Josef
Toward a full description of MeV dark matter decoupling: A self-consistent determination of relic abundance and <math display="inline"><msub><mi>N</mi><mi>eff</mi></msub></math>
title Toward a full description of MeV dark matter decoupling: A self-consistent determination of relic abundance and <math display="inline"><msub><mi>N</mi><mi>eff</mi></msub></math>
title_full Toward a full description of MeV dark matter decoupling: A self-consistent determination of relic abundance and <math display="inline"><msub><mi>N</mi><mi>eff</mi></msub></math>
title_fullStr Toward a full description of MeV dark matter decoupling: A self-consistent determination of relic abundance and <math display="inline"><msub><mi>N</mi><mi>eff</mi></msub></math>
title_full_unstemmed Toward a full description of MeV dark matter decoupling: A self-consistent determination of relic abundance and <math display="inline"><msub><mi>N</mi><mi>eff</mi></msub></math>
title_short Toward a full description of MeV dark matter decoupling: A self-consistent determination of relic abundance and <math display="inline"><msub><mi>N</mi><mi>eff</mi></msub></math>
title_sort toward a full description of mev dark matter decoupling: a self-consistent determination of relic abundance and <math display="inline"><msub><mi>n</mi><mi>eff</mi></msub></math>
topic Astrophysics and Astronomy
Particle Physics - Phenomenology
url https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.055022
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2810684
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