Dark matter freeze out during an early cosmological period of QCD confinement

Abstract Standard lore states that there is tension between the need to accommodate the relic density of a weakly interacting massive particle and direct searches for dark matter. However, the estimation of the relic density rests on an extrapolation of the cosmology of the early Universe to the tim...

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Main Authors: Dillon Berger, Seyda Ipek, Tim M.P. Tait, Michael Waterbury
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-07-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP07(2020)192