Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · arXiv:1201.3942 v1 · submitted 18 Jan 2012
Dark Matter: A Brief Review
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“Given the absence of detections in those experiments, I will advocate a return of the problem of dark-matter identification to astronomy, and show what kinds of theoretical and observational work might be used to pin down the nature of dark matter once and for all.”
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From astronomical observations, we know that dark matter exists, makes up 23% of the mass budget of the Universe, clusters strongly to form the load-bearing frame of structure for galaxy formation, and hardly interacts with ordinary matter except gravitationally. However, this information is not enough to identify the particle specie(s) that make up dark matter. As such, the problem of determining the identity of dark matter has largely shifted to the fields of astroparticle and particle physics. In this talk, I will review the current status of the search for the nature of dark matter. I will provide an introduction to possible particle candidates for dark matter and highlight recent experimental astroparticle- and particle-physics results that constrain the properties of those candidates. Given the absence of detections in those experiments, I will advocate a return of the problem of dark-matter identification to astronomy, and show what kinds of theoretical and observational work might be used to pin down the nature of dark matter once and for all. This talk is intended for a broad astronomy audience.
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| From astronomical observations, we know that dark matter exists, makes up 23% of the mass budget of the Universe, clusters strongly to form the load-bearing frame of structure for galaxy formation, and hardly interacts with ordinary matter except gravitationally. | background 1.00 | 0.09 | 0.06 | asserted 1.00 |
| However, this information is not enough to identify the particle specie(s) that make up dark matter. | gap 0.92 | 0.06 | 0.04 | asserted 0.99 |
| As such, the problem of determining the identity of dark matter has largely shifted to the fields of astroparticle and particle physics. | background 0.74 | 0.06 | 0.05 | asserted 0.96 |
| In this talk, I will review the current status of the search for the nature of dark matter. | contribution 0.93 | 0.20 | 0.04 | asserted 0.68 |
| I will provide an introduction to possible particle candidates for dark matter and highlight recent experimental astroparticle- and particle-physics results that constrain the properties of those candidates. | contribution 0.95 | 0.13 | 0.06 | asserted 0.80 |
| Given the absence of detections in those experiments, I will advocate a return of the problem of dark-matter identification to astronomy, and show what kinds of theoretical and observational work might be used to pin down the nature of dark matter once and for all. | future work 0.85 | 0.17 | 0.68 | asserted 0.53 |
| This talk is intended for a broad astronomy audience. | background 0.53 | 0.10 | 0.02 | asserted 0.98 |
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28 arXiv papers cite this in 29 sentences
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Whether or not they have a Standard Model origin, macros [ref] remain a viable dark matter candidate and an alternative to the comparatively light candidates, such as weakly interacting massive particles or axions (see, e.g., [ref] for a brief review of those candidates).
Primordial $^4\text{He}$ constraints on inelastic macro dark matter revisited · Introduction · 0.97
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Dark matter haloes have been extensively studied in the literature using both N-body simulations and analytical approaches [ref] .
Concentration, Ellipsoidal Collapse, and the Densest Dark Matter haloes · Introduction · 1.00
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The particle nature of dark matter (DM) remains elusive, even after decades of ever-more sensitive astrophysical, cosmological, collider, and direct detection searches [ref] .
New Constraints on Macroscopic Dark Matter Using Radar Meteor Detectors · Introduction · 1.00
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The simplest model of sterile neutrino dark matter (Dodelson-Widrow neutrinos) are excluded by a combination of small-scale structure observations and non-detections of X-rays from galaxies [ref] (for an alternative view, see [ref] ).
Constraining Sterile Neutrino Warm Dark Matter with Chandra Observations of the Andromeda Galaxy · The particle zoo · 0.96
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