Can the WIMP annihilation boost factor be boosted by the Sommerfeld enhancement?
Massimiliano Lattanzi, Joseph Silk

TL;DR
This paper explores how the Sommerfeld enhancement can significantly boost dark matter annihilation signals, especially in cold substructures, potentially explaining cosmic ray excesses and predicting detectable gamma-ray signatures.
Contribution
It demonstrates that Sommerfeld correction can greatly enhance dark matter annihilation signals in cold substructures, with implications for cosmic ray and gamma-ray observations.
Findings
Sommerfeld correction can increase annihilation boost factors to 10^4-10^5.
Boost saturation occurs below velocity $eta\,\sim\,10^{-4}$, constraining substructure mass.
Gamma-ray signals from annihilations could be detectable by FERMI, especially from the outer halo.
Abstract
We demonstrate that the Sommerfeld correction to CDM annihilations can be appreciable if even a small component of the dark matter is extremely cold. Subhalo substructure provides such a possibility given that the smallest clumps are relatively cold and contain even colder substructure due to incomplete phase space mixing. Leptonic channels can be enhanced for plausible models and the solar neighbourhood boost required to account for PAMELA/ATIC data is plausibly obtained, especially in the case of a few TeV mass neutralino for which the Sommerfeld-corrected boost is found to be Saturation of the Sommerfeld effect is shown to occur below thereby constraining the range of contributing substructures to be above We find that the associated diffuse gamma ray signal from annihilations would exceed EGRET constraints unless the…
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