Early-Universe constraints on dark matter-baryon scattering and their implications for a global 21 cm signal

We present and compare several cosmological constraints on the cross section for elastic scattering between dark matter (DM) and baryons, for cross sections with a range of power-law dependences on the DM-baryon relative velocity v, especially focusing on the case of σ∝v^{-4}. We study constraints s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Slatyer, Tracy Robyn, Wu, Chih-Liang
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117112
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9699-9047