Speaker
Dr
Andrea Mitridate
(SNS)
Description
In models where the Dark Matter arises as a thermal relic of an early annihilation stage we can use the cosmological DM abundance to derive information on the DM mass. Thus it is crucial to compute thermal freeze-out abundance accurately. The importance of non-relativistic effects, like Sommerfeld enhancement, in the annihilation of DM particles has been recognized long time ago. In this talk I will discuss another kind of non-relativistic effect that can give sizable contribution to the DM phenomenology: formation and subsequent decay of DM bound states. In particular I will illustrate the impact of DM bound states on the relic density computations as well as some interesting features, which could be observed in indirect detection experiments.
Primary author
Dr
Andrea Mitridate
(SNS)
