Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Dark Matter Physics from Halo Measurements
Abstract
The non-linear process of cosmic structure formation produces gravitationally bound overdensities of dark matter known as halos. The abundances, density profiles, ellipticities, and spins of these halos can be tied to the underlying fundamental particle physics that governs dark matter at microscopic scales. Thus, macroscopic measurements of dark matter halos offer a unique opportunity to determine the underlying properties of dark matter across the vast landscape of dark matter theories. This white paper summarizes the ongoing rapid development of theoretical and experimental methods, as well as new opportunities, to use dark matter halo measurements as a pillar of dark matter physics.
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@article{arxiv.2203.07354,
title = {Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Dark Matter Physics from Halo Measurements},
author = {Keith Bechtol and Simon Birrer and Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine and Katelin Schutz and Susmita Adhikari and Mustafa Amin and Arka Banerjee and Simeon Bird and Nikita Blinov and Kimberly K. Boddy and Celine Boehm and Kevin Bundy and Malte Buschmann and Sukanya Chakrabarti and David Curtin and Liang Dai and Alex Drlica-Wagner and Cora Dvorkin and Adrienne L. Erickcek and Daniel Gilman and Saniya Heeba and Stacy Kim and Vid Iršič and Alexie Leauthaud and Mark Lovell and Zarija Lukić and Yao-Yuan Mao and Sidney Mau and Andrea Mitridate and Philip Mocz and Julian B. Muñoz and Ethan O. Nadler and Annika H. G. Peter and Adrian Price-Whelan and Andrew Robertson and Nashwan Sabti and Neelima Sehgal and Nora Shipp and Joshua D. Simon and Rajeev Singh and Ken Van Tilburg and Risa H. Wechsler and Axel Widmark and Hai-Bo Yu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.07354},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
White paper submitted to the Proceedings of the US Community Study on the Future of Particle Physics (Snowmass 2021). 88 pages, 9 figures. Comments welcome