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Computing singlet scalar freeze-out with plasmon and plasmino states

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Pith's one-line read For a TeV-scale singlet scalar dark matter candidate, fully resummed hot-plasma final states leave the inclusive annihilation cross section essentially at its vacuum value, so the relic-density constraint on the model is unchanged.

desk verdict A solid, carefully crosschecked HTL computation that reconfirms the standard singlet scalar limits; the dropped spectral-function continuum is a real but likely harmless gap. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.05206 v2 pith:BE6MA7IU submitted 2025-05-08 hep-ph

S. Biondini , M. Eriksson , M. Laine This is my paper · ORCID
classification hep-ph
keywords singletscalardarkmatterHardThermalLoopresummationplasmonplasminofreeze-outelectroweakcrossoverrelicdensityfieldtheory
topics Dark Matter
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The reading

This paper asks whether the hot plasma at the electroweak crossover can change the annihilation cross section that sets the relic density of a heavy singlet-scalar dark matter particle. Final-state Standard Model particles in a plasma are not vacuum particles: Hard Thermal Loop resummation gives gauge bosons a third polarization state (plasmon) and fermions an extra branch (plasmino). The paper assembles the full resummed spectrum for the Standard Model near $T_c\approx160$ GeV and computes the inclusive $2\to2$ annihilation cross section for a TeV-scale singlet scalar. It finds that the dominant longitudinal gauge channel is essentially temperature-independent, that thermal corrections enter only as powers of the Debye mass over the dark matter mass, and that the resulting relic density curve agrees with previous unresummed computations. The upshot is that cosmological constraints on TeV-scale singlet scalars are reconfirmed.

What carries the argument

The central machinery is the HTL-resummed propagators together with the cut of the retarded singlet-scalar self-energy. The cross section is obtained from $\Gamma^{\mathrm{max}}_{K;\phi}=\mathrm{Im}\,\Pi_{K;\phi}/\omega$ and a two-particle phase-space representation in which a heavy off-shell Higgs of momentum $P$ decays into two Standard Model quasiparticles. At hard momenta $q\sim m_\phi\gg\pi T$, each HTL propagator reduces to pole-like spectral functions with asymptotic masses: the transverse $W$ acquires $m_{WT}^2=m_W^2+m_{E2}^2/2$, while the electric (longitudinal) $W$ keeps $m_W^2$ with no thermal shift; the $Z$ splits into three channels, and the top quark into two chiral channels. Power counting with $q\sim m_\phi$, $p\sim\sqrt{m_\phi T}$, and $p_0\sim2m_\phi$ then shows that the longitudinal gauge channel dominates, with thermal corrections suppressed by powers of $m_E^2/q^2$.

What would settle it

Evaluate the full HTL spectral integrals in eq. (4.18) without replacing the spectral functions by on-shell poles, at $m_\phi\simeq2$ TeV and $T\simeq160$ GeV, and compare the result with the pole approximation; if the continuum weight contributes at order $(m_E/m_\phi)^2$ rather than being negligible at leading power, the paper's power counting would need revision.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim is that in the freeze-out of a TeV-scale singlet scalar with mass $m_{\phi,\mathrm{phys}}\sim$ few TeV and coupling $\kappa\sim1$, the thermally averaged inclusive annihilation cross section $\langle\sigma v_{\mathrm{rel}}\rangle$ computed with the full Hard-Thermal-Loop-resummed Standard Model is dominated by the longitudinal gauge channel, whose contribution is independent of both the temperature and the Higgs mechanism. The largest correction to that leading term is the ordinary vacuum correction induced by the Higgs mechanism, and genuine thermal effects appear only as power corrections: they are proportional to the second or fourth power of the Debye mass, i.e. suppressed by $(m_E/m_\phi)^2$ or $(m_E/m_\phi)^4$, with $m_E\sim gT$. Because these corrections are numerically negligible for $m_\phi\sim2$ TeV, the relic-density contours in the $(m_{\phi,\mathrm{phys}},\kappa)$ plane agree with earlier computations that did not implement HTL resummation, reproducing the benchmark $\Omega_\phi h^2\approx0.114$ for $m_{\phi,\mathrm{phys}}=9.79$ TeV and $\kappa=3.1$.

Load-bearing premise

The computation assumes that, at the high momenta typical of the annihilation products, each hot-plasma particle behaves like an ordinary particle with a shifted mass, so the continuous part of its spectral function can be neglected; if that continuous part carried non-negligible weight at momenta of order $m_\phi$, the suppression of thermal corrections could fail.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The relic-density contour in the $(m_{\phi,\mathrm{phys}},\kappa)$ plane is the same one obtained without HTL resummation, including the benchmark $\Omega_\phi h^2\approx0.114$ at $m_{\phi,\mathrm{phys}}=9.79$ TeV and $\kappa=3.1$.
  • Genuine thermal corrections to the inclusive cross section scale as $(m_E/m_\phi)^2$ or $(m_E/m_\phi)^4$, so they are numerically negligible for TeV-scale masses and do not shift the cosmological constraint.
  • The exclusive channels individually acquire new plasmon and plasmino contributions, but their sum remains close to the vacuum-like result, so an exclusive view is viable even though the intermediate steps are substantially modified.
  • Below $m_{\phi,\mathrm{phys}}\sim0.5$ TeV the hierarchy $m_\phi\gg\pi T$ breaks down, thermal masses can close the $2\to2$ channel, and a computation including initial equilibration and $1\leftrightarrow2$ processes would be required.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • We infer that the dominance of the temperature-independent longitudinal channel follows from kinematics rather than from the scalar's quantum numbers, so other heavy Higgs-portal dark matter candidates should show the same insensitivity of the inclusive annihilation rate to HTL corrections.
  • We infer that the paper's pole approximation predicts the continuum part of the HTL spectral functions at $q\sim m_\phi$ to be negligible at leading power; a direct numerical check of that weight would bound the neglected corrections.
  • We infer that once the relic-density constraint is confirmed to be resummation-insensitive, the dominant theoretical uncertainty in the constraint shifts to the inputs $v(T)$ near the crossover and the Standard Model equation of state, rather than to the thermal-resummation procedure.
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Summary. This paper computes the thermally averaged annihilation cross section for a TeV-scale singlet scalar dark matter candidate with Hard Thermal Loop (HTL) resummed Standard Model propagators. It collects the HTL-resummed propagators for the W, Z, and top quark in the electroweak crossover region, including plasmon and plasmino branches, and uses them to evaluate the imaginary part of the singlet scalar self-energy. The central derivation is carried out in Sections 3 and 4, where the authors show gauge-parameter cancellation, derive power-counting estimates for the various channels, and present numerical results for the WW, ZZ, and t-tbar contributions. The resulting relic density is then computed in Section 5 and found to agree with earlier unresummed calculations. The main claim is that for m_phi,phys in the few-TeV range, the inclusive annihilation cross section is dominated by a temperature-independent longitudinal gauge channel, with thermal corrections suppressed as powers of the Debye mass over the dark matter mass, so cosmological constraints are unchanged.

Significance. If the result holds, the paper is a valuable technical reference. It provides a complete set of HTL-resummed Standard Model Feynman rules and propagators in the crossover region, demonstrates explicitly that the gauge dependence cancels in the annihilation rate, and gives transparent power-counting estimates that are numerically confirmed in Fig. 2. The relic-density curve is an output of the calculation, not an input, and the comparison with earlier unresummed results is a useful crosscheck. The main weakness is that the replacement of full HTL spectral functions by on-shell poles is not quantitatively controlled in the paper, as discussed in the major comments.

major comments (2)
  1. [Sec. 4.4, Eqs. (4.23)-(4.31) and Fig. 2] The central quantitative claim is established only after replacing the full HTL spectral functions by delta functions at their asymptotic masses (Eqs. (4.30)-(4.31), and similarly for ZZ and t-tbar in Appendices C-D). The Landau-damping continuum |q0|<q is dropped without an estimate. The asymptotic expansions (4.26)-(4.27) are derived under the condition q0-q << q and do not control the continuum, which enters the same 1->2 phase-space integral (4.18) through the spectral densities. A crude estimate for the benchmark m_phi,phys = 2 TeV, T = 160 GeV gives a continuum weight of order (m_E2^2/q^2) log(qT/m_W^2) ~ 10^-2, which is small but orders of magnitude larger than the retained (b)-(d) channels in Fig. 2. Since the manuscript claims in Sec. 6 that the computation takes into account the "full structures predicted by HTL effective theories," the authors should either evaluate the continuum contribution numerically with the full spectral densities or explicitly state and justify the kinematic domain in which it is negligible.
  2. [Sec. 4.2, Eq. (4.18) and Sec. 4.4, power counting] The power-counting estimates in Eqs. (4.41)-(4.44) assume q0 ≈ q for both final-state particles. However, in the lab frame the decay products carry momenta that can differ from m_phi by up to O(sqrt(m_phi T)) (compare Eq. (4.22)), so contributions with q0 - q of order T or larger are kinematically allowed and are not exponentially suppressed by the Boltzmann factor e^{-beta p0}. This means the statement in Eq. (4.23) that q0 - q ~ m_infty^2/m_phi is too restrictive for the purpose of bounding the spectral continuum. The conclusion that thermal corrections are power-suppressed needs an explicit estimate over the full integration region, not only the near-pole region.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Sec. 3.1, Eqs. (3.5)-(3.6)] The symbol m_h is used for different quantities in the two phases: the physical Higgs-like excitation below T_c and the resummed scalar mass parameter above T_c. Renaming the high-temperature scalar mass, for example to m_phi, would avoid confusion.
  2. [Fig. 1] The curve labelled m_ZT- is the thermal asymptotic mass of the hypercharge/photon-like excitation; the caption could state this more explicitly, since it is not obvious from the figure alone.
  3. [Sec. 5, Fig. 3] The agreement with refs. [21, 23] is stated as being "within plot resolution" and the quoted benchmark for m_phi,phys = 9.79 TeV lies mostly in the T > T_c regime, where the new HTL machinery is not exercised. A direct quantitative comparison for a benchmark with freeze-out in the Higgs phase, such as m_phi,phys = 2 TeV, would strengthen the claim.
  4. [Appendix B, Eq. (B.4)] The replacement of the averaged squared matrix element Phi_hh by the expression in Eq. (B.4) is non-trivial and the derivation is only sketched. A short explanation or a more explicit reference to the corresponding step in ref. [20] would improve readability.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the relic density is a computed output, and all fitted or cited inputs (lattice Tc, equation of state, running couplings) are independent of the paper's HTL cross-section result.

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain is self-contained in the relevant sense. The thermally averaged annihilation cross section is obtained from the imaginary part of a retarded scalar self-energy (eq. (2.3)), with the phase-space integral written in eq. (4.18) in terms of HTL spectral functions. The HTL self-energies and propagators are standard, cited to the original HTL literature (refs. [13–16]) and to Weldon for fermions (ref. [46]); they are not defined in terms of the final relic density. The thermal masses, asymptotic pole masses, and residues are derived from those self-energies, not fitted to the target observable. The externally supplied inputs—the crossover temperature from lattice QCD plus electroweak theory (ref. [39]), the equation of state (ref. [48]), and multiloop running couplings (ref. [49])—are independent benchmark data, not outputs of the paper's model. The comparison with refs. [21,23] is an external check of the final relic-density curve, not an input that forces the prediction. The central claim that the longitudinal gauge channel is temperature-independent follows from the explicit power counting in eqs. (4.41)–(4.44), and the numerical figures are computed, not imposed. The main possible weakness, namely the replacement of full HTL spectral functions by pole parts at hard momenta (eqs. (4.30)–(4.31), (C.8), (D.6)–(D.8)), is a systematic approximation whose domain is stated (q0 − q ≪ q, q ∼ m_phi ≫ πT); dropping the Landau-damping continuum is an unquantified uncertainty in the power counting, but it is not a circular reduction of the output to an input. No fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction, no uniqueness theorem from the same authors is invoked to forbid alternatives, and no ansatz is smuggled in via self-citation as a substitute for derivation. Therefore the circularity score is 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim introduces no new particles, forces, or conserved quantities. Plasmons and plasminos are not invented entities here because they are established quasiparticles of the HTL framework cited from the prior literature.

free parameters (3)
  • m_phi,phys (physical singlet scalar mass) = Scanned over 0.5 to 10.5 TeV; benchmark 2 TeV.
    Model parameter chosen by hand for illustration; the final constraint curve is a derived output, not a fit.
  • kappa (Higgs portal coupling) = Scanned up to about 5; benchmark 1.0.
    Model coupling chosen by hand; the relic density constraint relates kappa to m_phi,phys rather than being fitted.
  • v(T) parametrization = v(T) = v(0) Re sqrt(1 - T^2/T_c^2), with T_c around 160 GeV from ref. [39].
    A simplified fit to the crossover behavior of the Higgs expectation value; the authors note that a perturbative v(T) leaves the main results practically unchanged.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption HTL resummation correctly captures the leading soft-scale physics of the Standard Model plasma near the electroweak crossover.
    The entire computation builds on the HTL effective theory of refs. [13 to 16]; this is standard for temperatures near 160 GeV but is not machine-checked.
  • domain assumption The singlet scalar is heavy enough, m_phi much larger than pi T, that its mass sets the hard scale and justifies the pole approximation and power counting in Section 4.4.
    Used in eqs. (4.23) to (4.31) to replace spectral functions by asymptotic-mass poles; the paper states this breaks down below m_phi around 0.5 TeV.
  • domain assumption Final-state Standard Model particles are kinetically equilibrated and follow Bose or Fermi distributions, as assumed in eqs. (2.5) and (4.6).
    The freeze-out analysis relies on the equilibrium bath approximation and the dilute expansion of the dark matter distribution; this is standard in relic density computations.
  • domain assumption Lattice crossover temperature T_c around 160 GeV and the simplified v(T) parametrization from ref. [39] are accurate inputs.
    Used in eqs. (3.5) and (3.6) and in Fig. 1; the authors note robustness against perturbative alternatives.
  • domain assumption No significant non-pole spectral weight or 1 to 2 processes affect the TeV-scale regime considered here.
    The paper restricts to inclusive 2 to 2 annihilation and neglects LPM resummation and 1 to 2 processes, explicitly deferring those to m_phi below 0.5 TeV in Sections 5 and 6.

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The final-state particles from cosmological dark matter co-annihilation are expected to equilibrate. As dictated by Hard Thermal Loop resummation, the spectrum of equilibrated quasiparticles is richer than in vacuum, with a massless gauge field possessing three independent polarization states (``plasmons''), and a massless fermion developing a novel branch (``plasmino''). Furthermore, once the Higgs phenomenon sets in, vacuum and thermal mass corrections interfere. We collect together the corresponding poles and residues for the Standard Model around its crossover temperature. Choosing its singlet scalar extension for illustration, we subsequently demonstrate, both numerically and via power counting, and in accordance with general theoretical expectations, how in the freeze-out of TeV-scale dark matter, these effects remain well hidden in the inclusive annihilation cross section. In particular, the dominant (longitudinal) gauge channel is shown to be practically temperature-independent. Cosmological constraints on TeV-scale singlet scalars are reconfirmed.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. An illustration of the asymptotic masses in various channels: mh and mφ , from eqs. (3.5) and (3.6); mW and mW T , from eqs. (4.28) and (4.29); mZ , mZT + and mZT − , from eqs. (C.1) and (C.3); and mt1 and mt2 , from eq. (D.6). We remark that mW T and mZT + become degenerate at T > Tc , reflecting the absence of a Higgs mechanism, whereas mZT − represents the thermal asymptotic mass of a photon or hypercharge excita… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. fig. 2. The corresponding unresummed results for all channel [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. An illustration of the cross sections originating from the various terms in eq. (4.25), for the benchmark values mϕ,phys = 2 TeV, κ = 1.0. The notation “|(b)|” indicates that this channel gives a negative contribution, and we show the absolute value. The channels (b)–(d) give a vanishing contribution as we go to T > Tc , where m2 W → 0. 5. Phenomenological determination of dark matter abundance The averaged annihila… view at source ↗
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Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Left: The solution of eq. (5.1) for the benchmark values mϕ,phys = 2 TeV, κ = 1.0. Right: Ωϕ/Ωdm in the plane of mϕ,phys and κ. Within the plot resolution, the results agree with refs. [21,23]. for the running couplings and masses of the Standard Model, the multiloop v…
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: An illustration of the cross sections following from eqs. (B.1), (B.2), (B.3), (B.7), (B.8) and (B.9), for the benchmark values mϕ,phys = 2 TeV, κ = 1.0. The notation “|hh|” indicates that this channel gives a negative contribution, and we show the absolute value. The …
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: An illustration of the cross sections following from the various terms in eq. (3.56), for the benchmark values mϕ,phys = 2 TeV, κ = 1.0. The notation “|(b)|” indicates that this channel gives a negative contribution, and we show the absolute value. C. HTL-resummed ZZ c…
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: An illustration of the cross sections following from the various terms in eq. (3.57), with the terms split up and labelled according to eq. (D.15). We have employed the benchmark values mϕ,phys = 2 TeV, κ = 1.0. The notation “|(b)|” indicates that this channel gives a …

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