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Title: Zero-range effective field theory for resonant wino dark matter. Part I. Framework

Abstract

The most dramatic “Sommerfeld enhancements” of neutral-wino-pair annihilation occur when the wino mass is near a critical value where there is a zero-energy S-wave resonance at the neutral-wino-pair threshold. Near such a critical mass, low-energy winos can be described by a zero-range effective field theory in which the winos interact nonperturbatively through a contact interaction. The effective field theory is controlled by a renormalization-group fixed point at which the neutral and charged winos are degenerate in mass and their scattering length is infinite. The parameters of the zero-range effective field theory can be determined by matching wino-wino scattering amplitudes calculated by solving the Schrödinger equation for winos interacting through a potential due to the exchange of weak gauge bosons. If the wino mass is larger than the critical value, the resonance is a wino-pair bound state. As a result, the power of the zero-range effective field theory is illustrated by calculating the rate for formation of the bound state in the collision of two neutral winos through the emission of two soft photons.

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  1. The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States). Dept. of Physics
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Ohio State Univ., Columbus (United States)
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USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1499187
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0011726
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2017; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Supersymmetry Phenomenology

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Braaten, Eric, Johnson, Evan, and Zhang, Hong. Zero-range effective field theory for resonant wino dark matter. Part I. Framework. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1007/jhep11(2017)108.
Braaten, Eric, Johnson, Evan, & Zhang, Hong. Zero-range effective field theory for resonant wino dark matter. Part I. Framework. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11(2017)108
Braaten, Eric, Johnson, Evan, and Zhang, Hong. Fri . "Zero-range effective field theory for resonant wino dark matter. Part I. Framework". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11(2017)108. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1499187.
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abstractNote = {The most dramatic “Sommerfeld enhancements” of neutral-wino-pair annihilation occur when the wino mass is near a critical value where there is a zero-energy S-wave resonance at the neutral-wino-pair threshold. Near such a critical mass, low-energy winos can be described by a zero-range effective field theory in which the winos interact nonperturbatively through a contact interaction. The effective field theory is controlled by a renormalization-group fixed point at which the neutral and charged winos are degenerate in mass and their scattering length is infinite. The parameters of the zero-range effective field theory can be determined by matching wino-wino scattering amplitudes calculated by solving the Schrödinger equation for winos interacting through a potential due to the exchange of weak gauge bosons. If the wino mass is larger than the critical value, the resonance is a wino-pair bound state. As a result, the power of the zero-range effective field theory is illustrated by calculating the rate for formation of the bound state in the collision of two neutral winos through the emission of two soft photons.},
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year = {Fri Nov 17 00:00:00 EST 2017},
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