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Lifetime of a WIMP [duplicate]
I have been watching videos of WIMP's and have a simple question..
The larger the particles, the shorter their lifetime. A top quark is so massive that it cannot form a "stable" bond with ...
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Dark matter in the time window between freeze-out and kinetic decoupling
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After the freeze-out, when all annihilations have stopped, the abundance ($Y=\frac{n}{s}$) of thermal dark matter species no longer changes with time. However, it is still kept in kinetic ...
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Spin-dependent and spin-independent interactions of the dark matter
What is meant by spin-dependent and spin-independent interactions of the dark matter with the nuclei?
How is the interaction between nucleus and DM modeled?
What can we conclude if the DM-nuclei ...
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