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Nonthermal production of weakly interacting massive particles and the subgalactic structure of the universe
1Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
There is increasing evidence that conventional cold dark matter (CDM) models lead to conflicts between observations and numerical simulations of dark matter halos on subgalactic scales, which rules out the favored candidates for CDM, namely weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). We propose a mechanism of nonthermal production of WIMPs and study its implications on the power spectrum. Our results show that, in this context, WIMPs as candidates for dark matter can work well both on large scales and on subgalactic scales.
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