{"paper":{"title":"Relic abundance of MeV millicharged particles","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"hep-ph","authors_text":"A.D. Dolgov, A.S. Rudenko","submitted_at":"2016-09-25T16:59:45Z","abstract_excerpt":"The relic abundance of light millicharged particles (MCPs) with the electric charge $e' = 5\\cdot 10^{-5} e$ and with the mass slightly below or above the electron mass is calculated. The abundance depends on the mass ratio $\\eta=m_X/m_e$ and for $\\eta<1$ can be high enough to allow MCPs to be the cosmological dark matter or to make a noticeable contribution to it. On the other hand, for $\\eta \\gtrsim 1$ the cosmological energy density of MCPs can be quite low, $\\Omega_X h_0^2 \\approx 0.02$ for scalar MCPs, and $\\Omega_X h_0^2 \\approx 0.001$ for spin 1/2 fermions. But even the lowest value of $"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1609.07773","kind":"arxiv","version":3},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}