# DIS 2015 - XXIII. International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects

27 April 2015 to 1 May 2015
US/Central timezone

## On the annihilation rate of WIMPs

29 Apr 2015, 11:50
18m
THEATER ()

### THEATER

WG3 Electroweak Physics and Beyond the Standard Model

### Speaker

Mr Varun Vaidya (Carnegie Mellon University)

### Description

We systematically compute the annihilation rate for neutral winos into the final state $\gamma + X$, including all leading radiative corrections. This includes both the Sommerfeld enhancement (in the decoupling limit for the Higgsino) and the resummation of the leading electroweak double logarithms. Adopting an analysis of the HESS experiment, we place constraints on the mass as a function of the wino fraction of the dark matter and the shape of the dark matter profile. We also determine how much coring is needed in the dark matter halo to make the wino a viable candidate as a function of its mass. Additionally, as part of our effective field theory formalism, we show that in the pure-Standard Model sector of our theory, emissions of soft Higgses are power-suppressed and that collinear Higgs emission does not contribute to leading double logs.

### Primary author

Mr Varun Vaidya (Carnegie Mellon University)

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