We study the general properties of the freeze-out of a thermal relic. We give analytic
estimates of the relic abundance for an arbitrary freeze-out process, showing when …

We study general freeze-out scenarios where an arbitrary number of initial and final dark
matter particles participate in the number-changing freeze-out interaction. We consider a …

We show that the relic abundance of thermal dark matter annihilating via a long-range
interaction, is significantly affected by the formation and decay of dark matter bound states in …

We propose a new thermal freeze-out mechanism that results in dark matter masses
exceeding the unitarity bound by many orders of magnitude, without violating perturbative …

We introduce a novel mechanism where processes that preserve the number density of the
dark sector set the relic density of a thermal particulate dark matter. In a relatively …

The annihilation cross section of thermal relic dark matter determines both its relic density
and indirect detection signals. We determine how large indirect signals may be in scenarios …

We propose a new thermal dark matter candidate whose abundance is determined by the
freeze-out of inverse decays. The relic abundance depends parametrically only on a decay …

We reexamine unitarity bounds on the annihilation cross section of thermal weakly
interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter. For high-mass pointlike dark matter, it is …

We propose a new paradigm for the thermal production of dark matter in the early Universe,
in which dark-matter particles acquire their mass and freeze out spontaneously from the …

The model-independent theoretical upper bound on the thermal dark matter (DM) mass can
be derived from the maximum inelastic DM cross section featuring the whole observed DM …