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Dipolar dark matter and CMB B-mode polarization

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-10-31 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We consider dark matter as singlet fermionic particles which carrying magnetic dipole moment to explore its contribution on the polarization of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons. We show that Dirac fermionic dark matter has no contribution on the CMB polarization. However, in the case of Majorana dark matter this type of interaction leads to the B-mode polarization in presence of primordial scalar perturbations which is in contrast with standard scenario for the CMB polarization. We numerically calculate the B-mode power spectra and plot ClBBC_l^{BB} for different dark matter masses and the rr-parameter. We show that the dark matter with masses less than 100MeV have valuable contribution on ClBBC_l^{BB}. Meanwhile, the dark matters with mass md50MeVm_d\leq50MeV for r=0.07r=0.07 ( md80MeVm_d\leq80MeV for r=0.09r=0.09) can be excluded experimentally. Furthermore, our results put a bound on the magnetic dipole moment about M1016ecmM\leq 10^{-16} e\,\,cm in agreement with the other reported constraints.

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@article{arxiv.1805.11172,
  title  = {Dipolar dark matter and CMB B-mode polarization},
  author = {S. Mahmoudi and M. Haghighat and S. Modares Vamegh and R. Mohammadi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.11172},
  year   = {2018}
}
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