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The Sommerfeld enhancement for scalar particles and application to sfermion co-annihilation regions
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We study the impact of the Sommerfeld enhancement on the thermal relic density of the lightest neutralino in the case of large co-annihilation effects with a scalar particle. The proper way of including the Sommerfeld effect in this case is discussed, and the appropriate formulas for a general scenario with a set of particles with arbitrary masses and (off-)diagonal interactions are provided. We implement these results to compute the relic density in the neutralino sfermion co-annihilation regions in the mSUGRA framework. We find non-negligible effects in whole sfermion co-annihilation regimes. For stau co-annihilations the correction to the relic density is of the order of several per cent, while for stop co-annihilations is much larger, reaching a factor of 5 in some regions of the parameter space. A numerical package for computing the neutralino relic density including the Sommerfeld effect in a general MSSM setup is made public available.
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On the coverage of neutralino dark matter in coannihilations at the upgraded LHC
Projected HE-LHC searches could rule out neutralino dark matter up to 2.6, 1.7, and 0.8 TeV in gluino, stop, and wino coannihilation scenarios, but not in stau coannihilation.
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