Scatophobic Dark Matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2024-04-09 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
An outstanding mystery of dark matter physics is the lack of direct detection signals to date. We suggest that dark matter is scatophobic: due to a repulsive long-range interaction, it is repelled by objects with a large net scat charge, such as the Earth, and is therefore not able to reach direct detection experiments. This represents the first step in a broader theoretical paradigm that we dub the "anti-anthropic principle."
Cite
@article{arxiv.2404.00690,
title = {Scatophobic Dark Matter},
author = {Gerald X. Gilbert-Thorple and Jôsé J. Jesus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.00690},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
8 pages, 4 of which are references, two figures. v2: added references