Big Bang Nucleosynthesis constraints on resonant DM annihilations

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Publication date 02-2025
Journal Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Article number 032
Volume | Issue number 2025 | 2
Number of pages 27
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
Abstract

We perform a systematic study of BBN constraints from photodisintegration for scenarios in which dark-matter annihilations are resonantly-enhanced. To this end, we implement and make available a new class ResonanceModel within an updated version v1.3.0 of ACROPOLIS. While the corresponding implementation is done in a rather model-independent way, we also make available three benchmark models that can be used to calculate constraints for more concrete scenarios. Using this new version of ACROPOLIS, we present for the first time the corresponding constraints on resonantly-enhanced s-wave and p-wave annihilations. We show that for s-wave annihilations the bounds are usually very similar to the ones without a resonance, while for p-wave annihilations the bounds can be significantly stronger. The updated version v1.3.0 of ACROPOLIS can be found at https://github.com/hep-mh/acropolis.

Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.14900 https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/02/032
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85217970939
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