Semi-annihilation of dark matter

We show that the thermal relic abundance of dark matter can be affected by a new type of reaction: semi-annihilation. Semi-annihilation takes the schematic form ..., where psi i are stable dark matter particles and phi is an unstable state. Such reactions are generically present when dark matter is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: D'Eramo, Francesco, Thaler, Jesse
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Springer, for SISSA 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64651
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2406-8160