Cosmological constraints on decaying dark matter

被引：40

作者：

Amigo, Santiago De Lope ^{[1
]}

Cheung, William Man-Yin ^{[1
]}

Huang, Zhiqi ^{[2
,3
]}

Ng, Siew-Phang ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Toronto, Dept Phys, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7, Canada

[2] Univ Toronto, Dept Astron & Astrophys, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada

[3] Univ Toronto, Canadian Inst Theoret Astrophys, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8, Canada

来源：

JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | 2009年 / 06期

基金：

加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;

关键词：

dark matter; cosmology of theories beyond the SM; LY-ALPHA FOREST; MICROWAVE-BACKGROUND ANISOTROPY; CMB POWER SPECTRUM; COSMIC SHEAR; MOSAIC OBSERVATIONS; VIRMOS-DESCART; 2003; FLIGHT; SUPERSYMMETRY; TEMPERATURE; PARAMETERS;

D O I：

10.1088/1475-7516/2009/06/005

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We present a complete analysis of the cosmological constraints on decaying dark matter. Previous analyses have used the cosmic microwave background and Type Ia supernova. We have updated them with the latest data as well as extended the analysis with the inclusion of Lyman-alpha forest, large scale structure and weak lensing observations. Astrophysical constraints are not considered in the present paper. The bounds on the lifetime of decaying dark matter are dominated by either the late-time integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect for the scenario with weak reionization, or CMB polarization observations when there is significant reionization. For the respective scenarios, the lifetimes for decaying dark matter are Gamma(-1) greater than or similar to 100 Gyr and (f Gamma)(-1) greater than or similar to 5.3 x 10(8) Gyr (at 95.4% confidence level), where the phenomenological parameter f is the fraction of the decay energy deposited in baryonic gas. This allows us to constrain particle physics models with dark matter candidates through investigation of dark matter decays into Standard Model particles via effective operators. For decaying dark matter of similar to 100 GeV mass, we found that the size of the coupling constant in the effective dimension-4 operators responsible for dark matter decay has to generically be less than or similar to 10(-22). We have also explored the implications of our analysis for representative models in theories of gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking, minimal supergravity and little Higgs.

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