Unitarity limits on the mass and radius of dark-matter particles
Abstract
Using partial-wave unitarity and the observed density of the Universe, we show that a stable elementary particle which was once in thermal equilibrium cannot have a mass greater than 340 TeV. An extended object which was once in thermal equilibrium cannot have a radius less than 7.5×10-7 fm. A lower limit to the relic abundance of such particles is also found.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- February 1990
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1990PhRvL..64..615G
- Keywords:
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- Annihilation Reactions;
- Dark Matter;
- Neutrinos;
- Particle Mass;
- Thermodynamic Equilibrium;
- Universe;
- Cosmology;
- Radii;
- Astrophysics;
- 98.80.Cq;
- 11.80.Et;
- Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe;
- Partial-wave analysis