Non-relativistic pair annihilation of nearly mass degenerate neutralinos and charginos I. General framework and S-wave annihilation

TL;DR

This paper analytically calculates tree-level annihilation rates of nearly mass degenerate neutralinos and charginos in the MSSM, providing essential groundwork for understanding dark matter annihilation and Sommerfeld enhancement effects.

Contribution

It introduces a general framework for computing off-diagonal annihilation rates of neutralinos and charginos, advancing the precision of dark matter annihilation modeling in the MSSM.

Findings

Analytic expressions for neutralino and chargino annihilation rates.

Inclusion of off-diagonal annihilation processes.

Foundation for Sommerfeld enhancement calculations.

Abstract

We compute analytically the tree-level annihilation rates of a collection of non-relativistic neutralino and chargino two-particle states in the general MSSM, including the previously unknown off-diagonal rates. The results are prerequisites to the calculation of the Sommerfeld enhancement in the MSSM, which will be presented in subsequent work. They can also be used to obtain concise analytic expressions for MSSM dark matter pair annihilation in the present Universe for a large number of exclusive two-particle final states.