scholarly journals Dark Matter as Variations in the Electromagnetic Zero-Point Field Induced by Baryonic Matter

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1534
Author(s):  
Yehonatan Knoll
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Gravitational Interaction ◽  
Zero Point ◽  
Momentum Tensor ◽  
Internal Conflict ◽  
Classical Electrodynamics ◽  
Proper Solution ◽  
Point Field

Cold dark-matter, as a solution to the so-called dark-matter problem, suffers from a major internal conflict: In order to dodge direct detection for so long, it must have an unobservably small (non gravitational) interaction with mundane matter, and yet it manages to ‘conspire’ with it such that, in single galaxies, its distribution can be inferred from that of mundane matter via the MOND phenomenology. This conflict is avoided if the missing, transparent component of the energy-momentum tensor is due to variations in some electromagnetic ‘zero point field’ (ZPF) which is sourced by mundane matter and contains both its advanced and retarded fields. The existence of a ZPF thus modulated by mundane matter, follows from a proper solution to the self-force problem of classical electrodynamics (CED), recently proposed by the author, which renders CED compatible with the statistical predictions of QM. The possibility that ‘dark matter’ is yet another, hitherto ignored facet of good-old classical electrodynamics, therefore seems no less plausible than it being a highly exotic and conspirative new form of matter. Tests for deciding between the two are proposed.

scholarly journals The impact of inelastic self-interacting dark matter on the dark matter structure of a Milky Way halo

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kun Ting Eddie Chua ◽  
Karia Dibert ◽  
Mark Vogelsberger ◽  
Jesús Zavala
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Major Axis ◽  
Inelastic Collisions ◽  
Axis Ratio ◽  
Lower Velocity ◽  
The Impact

Abstract We study the effects of inelastic dark matter self-interactions on the internal structure of a simulated Milky Way (MW)-size halo. Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is an alternative to collisionless cold dark matter (CDM) which offers a unique solution to the problems encountered with CDM on sub-galactic scales. Although previous SIDM simulations have mainly considered elastic collisions, theoretical considerations motivate the existence of multi-state dark matter where transitions from the excited to the ground state are exothermic. In this work, we consider a self-interacting, two-state dark matter model with inelastic collisions, implemented in the Arepo code. We find that energy injection from inelastic self-interactions reduces the central density of the MW halo in a shorter timescale relative to the elastic scale, resulting in a larger core size. Inelastic collisions also isotropize the orbits, resulting in an overall lower velocity anisotropy for the inelastic MW halo. In the inner halo, the inelastic SIDM case (minor-to-major axis ratio s ≡ c/a ≈ 0.65) is more spherical than the CDM (s ≈ 0.4), but less spherical than the elastic SIDM case (s ≈ 0.75). The speed distribution f(v) of dark matter particles at the location of the Sun in the inelastic SIDM model shows a significant departure from the CDM model, with f(v) falling more steeply at high speeds. In addition, the velocity kicks imparted during inelastic collisions produce unbound high-speed particles with velocities up to 500 km s−1 throughout the halo. This implies that inelastic SIDM can potentially leave distinct signatures in direct detection experiments, relative to elastic SIDM and CDM.

scholarly journals Future prospects for the minimal supersymmetric standard model

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150188
Author(s):  
Shehu AbdusSalam ◽  
Safura S. Barzani ◽  
Mohammadreza Noormandipour
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Supersymmetric Standard Model ◽  
Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Hadron Colliders ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Lower Limits

Experimental collaborations for the large hadron collider conducted various searches for supersymmetry. In the absence of signals, lower limits were put on sparticle masses but usually within frameworks with (over-)simplifications relative to the entire indications by supersymmetry models. For complementing current interpretations of experimental bounds, we introduce a 30-parameter version of the R-parity conserving Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM-30). Using a sample of the MSSM-30 which are in harmony with cold dark matter, flavor and precision electroweak constraints, we explicitly show the prospects for assessing neutralino candidate dark matter in contrast to future searches for supersymmetry. The MSSM-30-parameter regions that are beyond reach to dark matter direct detection experiments could be probed by future hadron–hadron colliders.

SEARCHING FOR AXIONS AND OTHER EXOTICS WITH DARK MATTER DETECTORS

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (02n03) ◽  
pp. 564-572
Author(s):  
MAXIM POSPELOV
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Annual Modulation ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Detection Capabilities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Particle Decays ◽  
O 10

I consider models of light super-weakly interacting cold dark matter, with [Formula: see text] mass, focusing on bosonic candidates such as pseudoscalars and vectors. I analyze the cosmological abundance, the γ-background created by particle decays, the impact on stellar processes due to cooling, and the direct detection capabilities in order to identify classes of models that pass all the constraints. In certain models, variants of photoelectric (or axioelectric) absorption of dark matter in direct-detection experiments can provide a sensitivity to the superweak couplings to the Standard Model which is superior to all existing indirect constraints. In all models studied, the annual modulation of the direct-detection signal is at the currently unobservable level of O(10-5).

scholarly journals DARK MATTER CANDIDATE IN A HEAVY HIGGS MODEL: DIRECT DETECTION RATES

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (24) ◽  
pp. 2011-2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEBASISH MAJUMDAR ◽  
AMBAR GHOSAL
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Higgs Boson ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Scalar Potential ◽  
Higgs Model ◽  
Boson Mass ◽  
Dark Matter Candidate ◽  
Detection Rates ◽  
200 Gev

We investigate direct detection rates for Dark Matter candidates arise in a SU (2)L× U (1)Y with an additional doublet Higgs proposed by Barbieri, Hall and Rychkov. We refer to this model as "Heavy Higgs Model". The Standard Model Higgs mass comes out from this model is very heavy, so there is very slim chance that there is no Higgs boson mass below 200 GeV. The additional Higgs boson develops neither any VEV due to the choice of coefficient of the scalar potential of the model nor it has any coupling with fermions due to the incorporation of a discrete parity symmetry. Thus, the neutral components of the extra doublet are stable and can be considered as probable candidate of Cold Dark Matter. We have made calculations for three different types of Dark Matter experiments, namely, 76 Ge (like GENIUS), DAMA (NaI) and XENON (131 Xe ). Also demonstrated the annual variation of Dark Matter detection in case of all three

WIMP event rates in directional experiments: The diurnal variation signature

Open Physics ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Vergados ◽  
Charalampos Moustakidis
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Diurnal Variation ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Weakly Interacting Massive Particles ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Event Rates ◽  
Matter Detection ◽  
Direct Dark Matter

AbstractThe recent WMAP data have confirmed that exotic dark matter together with the vacuum energy (cosmological constant) dominate in the flat Universe. Modern particle theories provide viable cold dark matter candidates with masses in the GeV-TeV region. All such candidates will be called WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles). The nature of dark matter can only be unraveled by its direct detection in the laboratory. In this work we present some theoretical elements relevant to the direct dark matter detection experiments, paying particular attention to directional experiments, i.e. experiments in which not only the energy but the direction of the recoiling nucleus is observed. Since the direction of observation is fixed with respect to the Earth, while the Earth is rotating around its axis, in a directional experiment the angle between the direction of observation and the Sun’s direction of motion will change during the day. So, since the event rates sensitively depend on this angle, the observed signal in such experiments will exhibit very interesting and characteristic periodic diurnal variation.

scholarly journals The fate of magnetic fields in colliding galaxies

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (S274) ◽  
pp. 376-380
Author(s):  
Hanna Kotarba ◽  
Harald Lesch ◽  
Klaus Dolag ◽  
Thorsten Naab
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Structure Formation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Gravitational Interaction ◽  
Interacting Galaxies ◽  
Galactic Dynamics

AbstractThe evolution and amplification of large-scale magnetic fields in galaxies is investigated by means of high resolution simulations of interacting galaxies. The goal of our project is to consider in detail the role of gravitational interaction of galaxies for the fate of magnetic fields. Since the tidal interaction up to galaxy merging is a basic ingredient of cold-dark matter (CDM) structure formation models we think that our simulations will give important clues for the interplay of galactic dynamics and magnetic fields.

scholarly journals SUSY INTO DARKNESS: HEAVY SCALARS IN THE CMSSM

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (15) ◽  
pp. 1350061 ◽  
Author(s):  
VAN E. MAYES
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Parameter Space ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Higgs Mass ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Percent Level ◽  
Relic Density ◽  
The One ◽  
Near Future

A survey of the mSUGRA/CMSSM parameter space is presented. The viable regions of the parameter space which satisfy standard experimental constraints are identified and discussed. These constraints include a 124–127 GeV mass for the lightest CP-even Higgs and the correct relic density for cold dark matter. The superpartner spectra corresponding to these regions fall within the well-known hyperbolic branch and are found to possess sub-TeV neutralinos and charginos, with mixed Bino/Higgsino LSP's with 200–800 GeV masses. In addition, the models possess ~3–4 TeV gluino masses and heavy squarks and sleptons with masses [Formula: see text]. Spectra with a Higgs mass mh≅125 GeV and a relic density 0.105 ≤ Ωχ0h2≤ 0.123 are found to require EWFT at around the one-percent level, while those spectra with a much lower relic density require EWFT of only a few percent. Moreover, the spin-independent neutralino–proton direct detection cross-sections are found to be below or within the XENON100 2σ limit and should be experimentally accessible now or in the near future. Finally, it is pointed out that the supersymmetry breaking soft terms corresponding to these regions of the mSUGRA/CMSSM parameter space (m0∝ m1/2with [Formula: see text] and A0= -m1/2) may be obtained from general flux-induced soft terms in Type IIB flux compactifications with D3 branes.

scholarly journals DARK MATTER WITH VARIABLE MASSES

1993 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
pp. 85-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUAN GARCÍA-BELLIDO
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Spiral Galaxies ◽  
Energy Momentum Tensor ◽  
Gauge Coupling ◽  
Momentum Tensor ◽  
Primordial Nucleosynthesis ◽  
Effective Theories ◽  
Dilaton Coupling

String effective theories contain a dilaton scalar field which couples to gravity, matter and radiation. In general, particle masses will have different dilaton couplings. We can always choose a conformal frame in which baryons have constant masses while (nonbaryonic) dark matter have variable masses, in the context of a scalar-tensor gravity theory. We are interested in the phenomenology of this scenario. Dark matter with variable masses could have a measurable effect on the dynamical motion of the halo of spiral galaxies, which may affect cold dark matter models of galaxy formation. As a consequence of variable masses, the energy-momentum tensor is not conserved; there is a dissipative effect, due to the dilaton coupling, associated with a “dark entropy” production. In particular, if axions had variable masses they could be diluted away, thus opening the “axion window.” Assuming that dark matter with variable masses dominates the cosmological evolution during the matter era, it will affect the primordial nucleosynthesis predictions on the abundances of light elements. Furthermore, the dilaton also couples to radiation in the form of a variable gauge coupling. Experimental bounds will constrain the parameters of this model.

scholarly journals Directional Observation of Cold Dark Matter Particles (WIMP) in Light Target Experiments

Universe ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Anna Anokhina ◽  
Vasilisa Gulyaeva ◽  
Emil Khalikov ◽  
Evgeny Kurochkin ◽  
Tatiana Roganova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Elastic Interaction ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Preferred Direction ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Optimal Target ◽  
Interaction Cross Sections

For the last 10 years, the search for dark matter (DM) was carried out taking into account the fact that the DM particles are WIMPs (Weakly Interacted Massive Particles) which were introduced in supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model. Many experiments such as XENON1T, DarkSide, CRESST, etc. set the constraints on the WIMP-nucleon elastic interaction cross sections for different assumed WIMP masses. Methods for detecting WIMPs could play a special role, allowing one to determine the directions of the tracks of recoil nuclei and, therefore, to determine the preferred direction of the WIMP flux. In this work, we analyze the capabilities of such direct detection experiments through analyzing the lengths and directions of the tracks of recoil nuclei. Taking into account the existing experimental constraints, we conclude that the optimal target would be a lower density target containing nuclei of the CNO group, for example, liquid propane.

scholarly journals CRESST Detectors for Nonbaryonic Cold Dark Matter Particles

2004 ◽  
Vol 220 ◽  
pp. 493-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Jagemann
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Energy Deposition ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Weakly Interacting Massive Particles ◽  
Dark Matter Halo ◽  
Interaction Cross Section ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Crucial Parameter

The CRESST experiment is set up for the direct detection of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) which our Galactic dark matter halo possibly consists of. the employed detection method is elastic scattering by nuclei. the recoiling nucleus deposits most of its energy in the form of lattice vibrations in the detector. Cooling the detector to very low temperatures (mK) enhances the temperature rise due to the energy deposition. the crucial parameter for direct WIMP searches is the sensitivity to the WIMP interaction cross section in a certain range of possible WIMP masses. CRESST is now sensitive enough to explore the parameter space predicted by supersymmetric models.

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