Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-02-21
Phys.Rev.Lett. 86 (2001) 3467-3470
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, references added
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3467
Conventional Cold Dark Matter cosmological models predict small scale structures, such as cuspy halos, which are in apparent conflict with observations. Several alternative scenarios based on modifying fundamental properties of the dark matter have been proposed. We show that general principles of quantum mechanics, in particular unitarity, imply interesting constraints on two proposals: collisional dark matter proposed by Spergel & Steinhardt, and strongly annihilating dark matter proposed by Kaplinghat, Knox & Turner. Efficient scattering required in both implies m < 12 GeV and m < 25 GeV respectively. The same arguments show that the strong annihilation in the second scenario implies the presence of significant elastic scattering, particularly for large enough masses. Recently, a variant of the collisional scenario has been advocated to satisfy simultaneously constraints from dwarf galaxies to clusters, with a cross section that scales inversely with velocity. We show that this scenario likely involves super-elastic processes, and the associated kinetic energy change must be taken into account when making predictions. Exceptions and implications for experimental searches are discussed.
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