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We apply a formalism accounting for thermal effects (such as modified Sommerfeld effect; Salpeter correction; decohering scatterings; dissociation of bound states), to one of the simplest WIMP-like dark matter models, associated with an “inert” Higgs doublet. A broad temperature range T ∼ M/20 . . . M/104 is considered, stressing the importance and less-understood nature of late annihilation stages. Even though only weak interactions play a role, we find that resummed real and virtual corrections increase the tree-level overclosure bound by 1 . . . 18%, depending on quartic couplings and mass splittings.
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Biondini, S., Laine, M. Re-derived overclosure bound for the inert doublet model. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 47 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2017)047
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