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非平衡粒子的Boltzmann方程及其在非热暗物质产生中的应用

Boltzmann equation for non-equilibrium particles and its application to non-thermal dark matter production

Koichi Hamaguchi, Takeo Moroi, Kyohei Mukaida

摘要:

本文研究了与热池弱耦合的标量场(称为$ϕ$)的数密度演化。我们使用从Kadanoff-Baym方程导出的玻尔兹曼方程,假设热浴中的自由度被很好地描述为“准粒子”。“当准粒子的宽度可以忽略不计时,$ϕ$的数密度的演化由一个简单的玻尔兹曼方程很好地控制,该方程包含了准粒子与热质量的色散关系所评估的产生率和分布函数。我们特别注意的情况下,暗物质是非热产生的粒子在热浴中的衰变,上述形式是适用的。当适当地考虑热浴效应时,暗物质的残余丰度与不考虑热浴效应时的结果相比可能会有$O(10-100%)$的变化。

英文摘要:

We consider a scalar field (called $ϕ$) which is very weakly coupled to thermal bath, and study the evolution of its number density. We use the Boltzmann equation derived from the Kadanoff-Baym equations, assuming that the degrees of freedom in the thermal bath are well described as "quasi-particles." When the widths of quasi-particles are negligible, the evolution of the number density of $ϕ$ is well governed by a simple Boltzmann equation, which contains production rates and distribution functions both evaluated with dispersion relations of quasi-particles with thermal masses. We pay particular attention to the case that dark matter is non-thermally produced by the decay of particles in thermal bath, to which the above mentioned formalism is applicable. When the effects of thermal bath are properly included, the relic abundance of dark matter may change by $O(10-100%)$ compared to the result without taking account of thermal effects.

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