Can plasma physics establish a significant bound on long range dark matter interactions?
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2025-01-15 v2
Abstract
Dark matter has been theorized to be charged under its own "dark electromagnetism" (dark-EM). Under this hypothesis, dark matter can behave like a cold collisionless plasma of self-interacting dark matter particles, and exhibit plasma-like instabilities with observational consequences. Using the results published in [1], which studied the degree of slowdown between two interpenetrating plasma clouds due to plasma instabilities, estimates of similar interactions for colliding "dark plasmas" are explored. Comparison with astronomical observations reveals strong new constraints on dark-EM with the dark electromagnetic self-interaction .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2411.15981,
title = {Can plasma physics establish a significant bound on long range dark matter interactions?},
author = {K. Schoeffler and N. Shukla and L. O. Silva},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.15981},
year = {2025}
}
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5 pages, 1 figure