Publication Date:
2015-05-06
Description:
Author(s): Gary Steigman A thermal relic, often referred to as a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP), is a particle produced during the early evolution of the Universe whose present (relic) abundance depends only on its mass and its thermally averaged annihilation cross section (annihilation rate factor) ⟨ σ v ⟩ ann . Lat... [Phys. Rev. D 91, 083538] Published Mon Apr 27, 2015
Keywords:
Cosmology
Print ISSN:
0556-2821
Electronic ISSN:
1089-4918
Topics:
Physics