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  "abstract": "We investigate the quantum statistical effects of bosonic warm dark matter (BWDM) in a microscopic model in which dark radiation (DR) is produced through the annihilation process $χχ\\rightarrowϕϕ$ mediated by a Yukawa interaction. By decomposing the BWDM phase-space distribution into thermal and Bose--Einstein condensed components, we derive the thermally averaged annihilation cross sections for the thermal--thermal, thermal--condensate, and condensate--condensate channels, including the Sommerfeld enhancement. We find that, for the relatively small scalar DR masses considered here, the thermal--condensate channel remains subdominant. The transition between the thermal--thermal dominated and condensate--condensate dominated regimes is characterized by a critical condensate fraction $r_{\\rm c}$, which depends mainly on the BWDM mass and the scalar DR mass. For condensate fractions above this critical value, the condensate--condensate channel can dominate the present-day annihilation rate. We further constrain the BWDM parameter space using the observational upper bound on the additional effective number of relativistic species, $ΔN_{\\mathrm{eff}}$.",
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      "name": "Zhijian Zhang"
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.29947",
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  "published": "2026-10-19",
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  "title": "Bose-Einstein condensation and dark radiation production from bosonic warm dark matter",
  "title_text": "Bose-Einstein condensation and dark radiation production from bosonic warm dark matter",
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