micrOMEGAs 6.0: N-component dark matter

• DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2024.109133
• Publication Date: 2024-02-15T11:25:25Z
• Authors: G. Alguero; G. Bélanger; F. Boudjema; S. Chakraborti; A. Goudelis; S. Kraml; A. Mjallal; A. Pukhov
• Keywords: Annihilation; Component (thermodynamics); MicroMegas detector; Hadronization; WIMP

micrOMEGAs is a numerical code to compute dark matter (DM) observables in generic extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. We present a new version of micrOMEGAs that includes a generalization of the Boltzmann equations governing the DM cosmic abundance evolution which can be solved to compute the relic density of N-component DM. The direct and indirect detection rates in such scenarios take into account the relative contribution of each component such that constraints on the combined signal of all DM components can be imposed. The co-scattering mechanism for DM production is also included, whereas the routines used to compute the relic density of feebly interacting particles have been improved in order to take into account the effect of thermal masses of t-channel particles. Finally, the tables for the DM self-annihilation - induced photon spectra have been extended down to DM masses of 110 MeV, and they now include annihilation channels into light mesons.<br/>39 pages, 1 figure<br/>