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From the observed results of the space distribution of quasars we deduced that neutrino mass is about10^(-1) eV. The fourth stable elementary particle (delta particle) with mass about 10^(0) eV can help explain the energy resource mechanism…

General Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Xiaodong Huang , Wuliang Huang

The quantum model of the homogeneous, isotropic, and spatially closed universe predicts an existence of two types of collective quantum states in the universe. The states of one type characterize a gravitational field, the others describe a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. E. Kuzmichev , V. V. Kuzmichev

Weak-scale dark matter particles, in collisions with nuclei, can mediate transitions between different nuclear energy levels. In particular, owing to sizeable momentum exchange, dark matter particles can enable de-excitation of nuclear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Björn Lehnert , Harikrishnan Ramani , Mikael Hult , Guillaume Lutter , Maxim Pospelov , Surjeet Rajendran , Kai Zuber

We derive rigorous lower bounds for the combinations of light quark masses (m_s+m_u) and (m_d+m_u).

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-01 Laurent Lellouch

From considering the effect of gamma-gamma interactions on recently observed TeV gamma-ray spectra, improved limits are set to the density of extragalactic infrared (IR) photons which are robust and essentially model-independent. The…

I review the properties of degenerate fermion balls and investigate the dark matter distribution at galactic centers using NFW, Moore and isothermal density profiles. I show that dark matter becomes degenerate for particles masses of a few…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Faustin Munyaneza

In the context of the relationship between physics of cosmological dark matter and symmetry of elementary particles a wide list of dark matter candidates is possible. New symmetries provide stability of different new particles and their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-26 M. Yu. Khlopov

We revisit constraints on dark matter that is charged under a $U(1)$ gauge group in the dark sector, decoupled from Standard Model forces. We find that the strongest constraints in the literature are subject to a number of mitigating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-08 Prateek Agrawal , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Lisa Randall , Jakub Scholtz

We show that collisional damping of adiabatic primordial fluctuations yields constraints on the possible range of mass and interaction rates of Dark Matter particles. Our analysis relies on a general classification of Dark Matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-20 C. Boehm , P. Fayet , R. Schaeffer

Cosmology at present provides the nominally strongest constraint on the masses of standard model neutrinos. However, this constraint extremely dependent on the nature of the dark energy component of the Universe. When the dark energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Steen Hannestad

Using gamma-ray data from observations of the Milky Way, Andromeda (M31), and the cosmic background, we calculate conservative upper limits on the dark matter self-annihilation cross section to monoenergetic gamma rays, <sigma_A v>_{gamma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gregory D. Mack , Thomas D. Jacques , John F. Beacom , Nicole F. Bell , Hasan Yuksel

Dark matter pair production at high energy colliders may leave observable signatures in the energy and momentum spectra of the objects recoiling against the dark matter. We discuss signatures of Dark Matter in the jets + missing energy and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Joachim Kopp

We update and extend to larger masses our previous analysis of the MSSM with minimal $SO_{10}$ [MSO$_{10}$SM] soft SUSY breaking boundary conditions. We find a well--defined, narrow region of parameter space which provides the observed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-23 R. Dermisek , S. Raby , L. Roszkowski , R. Ruiz de Austri

We investigate unbound dark matter particles in halos by tracing particle trajectories in a simulation run to the far future (a = 100). We find that the traditional sum of kinetic and potential energies is a very poor predictor of which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-26 Peter S. Behroozi , Abraham Loeb , Risa H. Wechsler

The mass of the dark matter particle is unknown, and may be as low as ~$10^{-22}$ eV. The lighter part of this range, below ~eV, is relatively unexplored both theoretically and experimentally but contains an array of natural dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-27 Peter W. Graham , David E. Kaplan , Jeremy Mardon , Surjeet Rajendran , William A. Terrano

We derive a bound on dark photon dark matter scenarios where the dark photon mass is generated through the Higgs mechanism, based on the requirement that symmetry breaking must occur sufficiently early in the universe. We emphasize that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-06 Naoya Kitajima , Shota Nakagawa , Fuminobu Takahashi , Wen Yin

The stable pseudo-scalar degree of freedom of the quadratic Poincar\'e Gauge theory of gravity is shown to be a suitable dark matter candidate. We find the parameter space of the theory which can account for all the predicted cold dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-12 Álvaro de la Cruz Dombriz , Francisco José Maldonado Torralba , David F. Mota

We use large-scale cosmological observations to place constraints on the dark-matter pressure, sound speed and viscosity, and infer a limit on the mass of warm-dark-matter particles. Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Martin Kunz , Savvas Nesseris , Ignacy Sawicki

Efforts to place limits on deviations from canonical formulations of electromagnetism and gravity have probed length scales increasing dramatically over time.Historically, these studies have passed through three stages: (1) Testing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Alfred Scharff Goldhaber , Michael Martin Nieto

We calculate the scattering rate of sub-GeV dark matter in solid-state targets for spin-dependent dark matter -- nucleon interactions. For dark matter particles with mass below 100 MeV, the scattering occurs predominantly through incoherent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-16 Stefania Gori , Simon Knapen , Tongyan Lin , Pankaj Munbodh , Bethany Suter