Calculations of relic densities in the early universe

The cosmological relic densities of stable particles are calculated to high precision. The results depend on assumptions made about the quark-hadron phase transition. We discuss in detail the calculation of the thermally averaged annihilation cross section. We consider the specific cases of photinos, higgsinos, and Dirac and Majorana neutrinos.

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