How well can (renormalized) perturbation theory predict dark matter clustering properties?
- Institute for Theory and Computation, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, MS-51, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (United States)
There has been some recent activity in trying to understand the dark matter clustering properties in the quasilinear regime, through resummation of perturbative terms, otherwise known as the renormalized perturbation theory [M. Crocce and R. Scoccimarro, Phys. Rev. D 73, 063519 (2006).], or the renormalization group method [P. McDonald, astro-ph/0606028.]. While it is not always clear why such methods should work so well, there is no reason for them to capture nonperturbative events such as shell-crossing. In order to estimate the magnitude of nonperturbative effects, we introduce a (hypothetical) model of sticky dark matter, which only differs from collisionless dark matter in the shell-crossing regime. This enables us to show that the level of nonperturbative effects in the dark matter power spectrum at k{approx}0.1 Mpc{sup -1}, which is relevant for baryonic acoustic oscillations, is about a percent, but rises to order unity at k{approx}1 Mpc{sup -1}.
- OSTI ID:
- 20933266
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 75, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.021302; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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