Long-lived light mediator to dark matter and primordial small scale spectrum
Long-lived light mediator to dark matter and primordial small scale spectrum
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暗物质和原始小尺度光谱的长寿命光介体
DOI:
10.1088/1475-7516/2015/05/008
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
6.4
通讯作者:
Yue Zhang
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作者:
Yue Zhang
We calculate the early universe evolution of perturbations in the dark matter energy density in the context of simple dark sector models containing a GeV scale light mediator. We consider the case that the mediator is long-lived, with lifetime up to a second, and before decaying it temporarily dominates the energy density of the universe. We show that for primordial perturbations that enter the horizon around this period, the interplay between linear growth during matter domination and collisional damping can generically lead to a sharp peak in the spectrum of dark matter density perturbation. As a result, the population of the smallest DM halos gets enhanced. Possible implications of this scenario are discussed.