Dark matter candidates: a ten-point test

By M. Taoso, G. Bertone, A. Masiero. 2007

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An extraordinarily rich zoo of non-baryonic dark matter candidates has been proposed over the last three decades. Here we present a ten-point test that a new particle has to pass in order to be considered a viable DM candidate. (I) Does it match the appropriate relic density? (II) Is it cold? (III) Is it neutral? (IV) Is it consistent with BBN? (V) Does it leave stellar evolution unchanged? (VI) Is it compatible with constraints on self-interactions? (VII) Is it consistent with direct DM searches? (VIII) Is it compatible with gamma-ray constraints? (IX) Is it compatible with other astrophysical bounds? (X) Can it be probed experimentally?

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Yet Another Introduction to Dark Matter (2017, methodology): “tarting from Section 4 I largely rely on research papers which are usually cited. A nice review on LHC searches, using a similar notation as mine, is available from Felix Kahlhofer [8]. Finally, Ref. [9] gives a nice overview of what particle physics dark¨ matter models typically look like, and Ref.”
A lower bound on the mass of dark matter particles (2008, background): “[9–12]): massive gravitons with the mass ∼ 10−19 eV [13], axions with the mass ∼ 10−6 eV [14], sterile neutrinos having mass in the keV range [15], sypersymmetric (SUSY) particles (gravitinos [16], neutralinos [17], axinos [18] with their masses ranging from eV to hundreds GeV, supersymmetric Q-ball”
Lyman-alpha constraints on warm and on warm-plus-cold dark matter models (2008, background): “[7, 8, 9, 10]): massive gravitons with mass ∼ 10 eV [11], axions with mass ∼ 10 eV [12, 13, 14], sterile neutrinos with mass in the keV range [15], supersymmetric (SUSY) particles (gravitinos [16], neutralinos [17, 18], axinos [19, 20] with mass ranging from a few eV to hundreds GeV), supersymmetric”