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Title: Production of dark-matter bound states in the early universe by three-body recombination

Abstract

The small-scale structure problems of the universe can be solved by self-interacting dark matter that becomes strongly interacting at low energy. A particularly predictive model for the self-interactions is resonant short-range interactions with an S-wave scattering length that is much larger than the range. The velocity dependence of the cross section in such a model provides an excellent fit to self-interaction cross sections inferred from dark-matter halos of galaxies and clusters of galaxies if the dark-matter mass is about 19 GeV and the scattering length is about 17 fm. Such a model makes definite predictions for the few-body physics of weakly bound clusters of the dark-matter particles. The formation of the two-body bound cluster is a bottleneck for the formation of larger bound clusters. We calculate the production of two-body bound clusters by three-body recombination in the early universe under the assumption that the dark matter particles are identical bosons, which is the most favorable case. If the dark-matter mass is 19 GeV and the scattering length is 17 fm, the fraction of dark matter in the form of two-body bound clusters can increase by as much as 4 orders of magnitude when the dark-matter temperature falls below the bindingmore » energy, but its present value remains less than 10-6. The present fraction can be increased to as large as 10-3 by relaxing the constraints from small-scale structure and decreasing the mass of the dark matter particle.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
  2. Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China)
  3. Johannes Gutenberg Univ., Mainz (Germany)
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Research Org.:
The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF); NSFC; German Research Foundation (DFG); European Research Council (ERC)
OSTI Identifier:
1602477
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0011726; PHY-1607190; 11875112; EXC-1098; KO 4820/1-1; FOR 2239; 637506
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2018; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM

Citation Formats

Braaten, Eric, Kang, Daekyoung, and Laha, Ranjan. Production of dark-matter bound states in the early universe by three-body recombination. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2018)084.
Braaten, Eric, Kang, Daekyoung, & Laha, Ranjan. Production of dark-matter bound states in the early universe by three-body recombination. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2018)084
Braaten, Eric, Kang, Daekyoung, and Laha, Ranjan. Tue . "Production of dark-matter bound states in the early universe by three-body recombination". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2018)084. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1602477.
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title = {Production of dark-matter bound states in the early universe by three-body recombination},
author = {Braaten, Eric and Kang, Daekyoung and Laha, Ranjan},
abstractNote = {The small-scale structure problems of the universe can be solved by self-interacting dark matter that becomes strongly interacting at low energy. A particularly predictive model for the self-interactions is resonant short-range interactions with an S-wave scattering length that is much larger than the range. The velocity dependence of the cross section in such a model provides an excellent fit to self-interaction cross sections inferred from dark-matter halos of galaxies and clusters of galaxies if the dark-matter mass is about 19 GeV and the scattering length is about 17 fm. Such a model makes definite predictions for the few-body physics of weakly bound clusters of the dark-matter particles. The formation of the two-body bound cluster is a bottleneck for the formation of larger bound clusters. We calculate the production of two-body bound clusters by three-body recombination in the early universe under the assumption that the dark matter particles are identical bosons, which is the most favorable case. If the dark-matter mass is 19 GeV and the scattering length is 17 fm, the fraction of dark matter in the form of two-body bound clusters can increase by as much as 4 orders of magnitude when the dark-matter temperature falls below the binding energy, but its present value remains less than 10-6. The present fraction can be increased to as large as 10-3 by relaxing the constraints from small-scale structure and decreasing the mass of the dark matter particle.},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP11(2018)084},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 11,
volume = 2018,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Nov 13 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Tue Nov 13 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}

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