Weak corrections to Minimal Dark Matter annihilations

arXiv:2606.18335 · hep-ph, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-06-16 · Read on arXiv

Dario Buttazzo, Mateusz Duch, Pier Paolo Giardino, Alessandro Strumia

hep-ph, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-06-16

Comments: 21 pages, 2 figures. Webinar presentation: https://youtu.be/NB_JTYOmZG8

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Abundance — 17× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Boltzmann Equation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• On Shell — 2× in this paper
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Symmetry Breaking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Minimal Dark Matter
• Dark Matter
• The last Complex WIMPs standing
• Supersymmetric Unification Without Low Energy Supersymmetry And Signatures for Fine-Tuning at the LHC
• Cosmology and Astrophysics of Minimal Dark Matter
• Cosmological Implications of Dark Matter Bound States
• Minimal Dark Matter in the sky: updated Indirect Detection probes
• Minimal Dark Matter bound states at future colliders
• QCD corrections to Minimal Dark Matter annihilations
• Non-perturbative Effect on Thermal Relic Abundance of Dark Matter
• The Sommerfeld enhancement at NLO and the dark matter unitarity bound
• Closing the window on WIMP Dark Matter
• Weak Corrections are Relevant for Dark Matter Indirect Detection
• On the Importance of Electroweak Corrections for Majorana Dark Matter Indirect Detection
• Initial State Radiation in Majorana Dark Matter Annihilations
• The one-loop and Sommerfeld electroweak corrections to the Wino dark matter annihilation
• Electroweak bremsstrahlung for wino-like Dark Matter annihilations
• The Role of Electroweak Corrections for the Dark Matter Relic Abundance
• Soft Collinear Effective Theory for Heavy WIMP Annihilation
• Heavy Dark Matter Annihilation from Effective Field Theory

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