Excluding light asymmetric bosonic dark matter.
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چکیده
We argue that current neutron star observations exclude asymmetric bosonic noninteracting dark matter in the range from 2 keV to 16 GeV, including the 5-15 GeV range favored by DAMA and CoGeNT. If bosonic weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are composite of fermions, the same limits apply provided the compositeness scale is higher than ∼10¹² GeV (for WIMP mass ∼1 GeV). In the case of repulsive self-interactions, we exclude the large range of WIMP masses and interaction cross sections which complements the constraints imposed by observations of the Bullet Cluster.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 107 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011