A closer look at CMB constraints on WIMP dark matter

Details A closer look at CMB constraints on WIMP dark matter A closer look at CMB constraints on WIMP dark matter

2012-01-18

arxiv.org/abs/1201.3939v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

Minor corrections, text expanded, citations added. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D

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We use Cosmic Microwave Background data from the WMAP, SPT, BICEP, and QUaD experiments to obtain constraints on the dark matter particle mass $m_\chi$, and show that the combined data requires $m_\chi > 7.6$ GeV at the 95% confidence level for the $\chi \chi \rightarrow b \bar b$ channel assuming $s-$wave annihilation and a thermal cross section $<\sigma_{\rm a} v> = 3 \times 10^{-26}$ cm$^3/$s. We examine whether the bound on $m_\chi$ is sensitive to $\sigma_8$ measurements made by galaxy cluster observations. The large uncertainty in $\sigma_8$ and the degeneracy with $\Omega_{\rm m}$ allow only small improvements in the dark matter mass bound. Increasing the number of effective neutrino-like degrees of freedom to $N_{\rm eff} = 3.85$ improves the mass bound to $m_\chi > 8.6$ GeV at 95% confidence, for the $\chi \chi \rightarrow b \bar b$ channel. We also study models in which dark matter halos at $z<60$ reionize the Universe. We compute the Ostriker-Vishniac power resulting from partial reionization at intermediate redshifts $10

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