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WIMP miracle: a standalone construct

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Cosmology

the coincidence that a weakly interacting particle with electroweak-scale mass and couplings would freeze out with about the observed dark matter density.

In cosmology, WIMP miracle refers to the coincidence that a weakly interacting particle with electroweak-scale mass and couplings would freeze out with about the observed dark matter density. This meaning comes from Jungman (1996) in Physics Reports.[1]

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References

Jungman, G., Kamionkowski, M., & Griest, K. (1996). Supersymmetric dark matter. Physics Reports, 267(5-6), 195-373. https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-1573(95)00058-5

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