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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 ee+e^-\,e^+ 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 αD<4×1025\alpha_{D} < 4 \times 10^{-25}.

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@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

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