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Calculations of relic densities in the early universe

Nuclear Physics BPublished 1 December 1988
Mark Srednicki, Richard Watkins, Keith A. Olive
Citations393
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Abstract

The cosmological relic densities of stable particles are calculated to high precision. The results depend on assumptions made about the quark-hadron phase transition. We discuss in detail the calculation of the thermally averaged annihilation cross section. We consider the specific cases of photinos, higgsinos, and Dirac and Majorana neutrinos.

Keywords

Physics and Astronomy