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Cosmological implications of Dark Matter bound states

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/05/006

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dark matter theory; cosmology of theories beyond the SM; particle physics - cosmology connection

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  1. ERC grant NEO-NAT
  2. MIUR-FIRB grant [RBFR12H1MW]

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We present generic formulae for computing how Sommerfeld corrections together with bound-state formation affects the thermal abundance of Dark Matter with non-abelian gauge interactions. We consider DM as a fermion 3plet (wino) or 5plet under SU(2) (L). In the latter case bound states raise to 11.5TeV the DM mass required to reproduce the cosmological DM abundance and give indirect detection signals such as (for this mass) a dominant gamma-line around 70 GeV. Furthermore, we consider DM co-annihilating with a colored particle, such as a squark or a gluino, finding that bound state effects are especially relevant in the latter case.

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