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Ultralight fermionic dark matter
Stockholm University, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita).
Number of Authors: 32021 (English)In: Physical Review D: covering particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, ISSN 2470-0010, E-ISSN 2470-0029, Vol. 103, no 5, article id 055014Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Conventional lore from Tremaine and Gunn excludes fermionic dark matter lighter than a few hundred eV, based on the Pauli exclusion principle. We highlight a simple way of evading this bound with a large number of species that leads to numerous nontrivial consequences. In this scenario there are many distinct species of fermions with quasidegenerate masses and no couplings to the standard model. Nonetheless, gravitational interactions lead to constraints from measurements at the LHC, of cosmic rays, of supernovae, and of black hole spins and lifetimes. We find that the LHC constrains the number of distinct species, bosons or fermions lighter than similar to 500 GeV, to be N less than or similar to 10(62). This, in particular, implies that roughly degenerate fermionic dark matter must be heavier than similar to 10(-14) eV, which thus relaxes the Tremaine-Gunn bound by similar to 16 orders of magnitude. Slightly weaker constraints applying to masses up to similar to 100 TeV exist from cosmic ray measurements while various constraints on masses less than or similar to 10(-10) eV apply from black hole observations. We consider a variety of phenomenological bounds on the number of species of particles. Finally, we note that there exist theoretical considerations regarding quantum gravity which could impose more severe constraints that may limit the number of physical states to N less than or similar to 10(32).

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2021. Vol. 103, no 5, article id 055014
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Cosmic ray composition & spectra, Dark matter, Particle dark matter, Quantum aspects of black holes
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-195430DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.055014ISI: 000648531300011OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-195430DiVA, id: diva2:1585928
Available from: 2021-08-18 Created: 2021-08-18 Last updated: 2022-02-25Bibliographically approved

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