Subjecting dark matter candidates to the cluster test
| Autor: | Nieuwenhuizen, Theodorus Maria |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Galaxy clusters, employed by Zwicky to demonstrate the existence of dark matter, pose new stringent tests. If merging clusters demonstrate that dark matter is self-interacting with cross section $\sigma/m\sim 2$ cm$^2$/gr, MACHOs, primordial black holes and light axions that build MACHOs are ruled out as cluster dark matter. Recent strong lensing and X-ray gas data of the quite relaxed and quite spherical cluster A1835 allow to test the cases of dark matter with Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac distribution, next to Navarro-Frenck-White profiles. Fits to all these profiles are formally rejected at over $5\sigma$, except in the fermionic situation. The interpretation in terms of (nearly) Dirac neutrinos with mass of $1.61^{+0.19}_{-0.30}$ eV/$c^2$ is consistent with results on the cluster A1689, with the WMAP, Planck and DES dark matter fractions and with the nondetection of neutrinoless double $\beta$-decay. The case will be tested in the 2018 KATRIN experiment. Comment: 5 pages latex, 1 figure |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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