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Dark matter abundance from the sequential freeze-in mechanism

Geneviève Bélanger1, Cédric Delaunay1, Alexander Pukhov2, and Bryan Zaldivar3

  • 1Laboratoire d’Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique LAPTh, CNRS-USMB, BP 110 Annecy-le-Vieux, F-74941 Annecy, France
  • 2Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow 119992, Russia
  • 3Departamento de Fisica Teorica and Instituto de Fisica Teorica, IFT-UAM/CSIC, Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Phys. Rev. D 102, 035017 – Published 14 August, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.035017

Abstract

We present a thorough analysis of the sequential freeze-in mechanism for dark matter production in the early Universe. In this mechanism the dark matter relic density results from pair annihilation of mediator particles which are themselves produced by thermal collisions of standard model particles. Below some critical value of the mediator coupling to standard model fields, this sequential channel dominates over the usual freeze-in where dark matter is directly produced from thermal collisions, even when the mediator is not in thermal equilibrium. The latter case requires computing the full nonthermal distribution of the mediators, for which finite temperature corrections are particularly important.

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Phys. Rev. D 102, 035017– Published 14 August, 2020
  • Received 20 May 2020
  • Accepted 24 July 2020
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