Cosmological Probes of Cosmological Probes of Dark Matter Interactions Dark Matter Interactions
Vera Gluscevic Vera Gluscevic
Princeton / USC
New Directions in the Search for Light Dark Matter Particles Fermilab/KICP (Jun 7, 2019)
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Cosmological Probes of Cosmological Probes of Dark Matter Interactions Dark Matter Interactions Vera Gluscevic Vera Gluscevic Princeton / USC New Directions in the Search for Light Dark Matter Particles Fermilab/KICP (Jun 7, 2019) 1
Princeton / USC
New Directions in the Search for Light Dark Matter Particles Fermilab/KICP (Jun 7, 2019)
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Direct detection
Indirect detection Production (colliders) Cosmology
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VG et al, Astro2020 (2019)
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VG et al, Astro2020 (2019)
~200 M yrs ~370 k yrs ~14 G yrs (today)
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VG et al, Astro2020 (2019)
~200 M yrs ~370 k yrs ~14 G yrs (today)
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∼ C
[μK ]ℓ TT 2
Planck Collaboration 2015
Variance
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fluids + gravity = baryonic acoustic oscillations
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fluids + gravity + drag = damped baryonic acoustic oscillations
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fluids + gravity + drag = damped baryonic acoustic oscillations angular scale Variance
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VG and Boddy, PRL (2018)
See also: Boehm+ (2002), Chen+ (2002), Dubovsky+ (2004), Sigurdson+ (2004), Dvorkin+ (2014).
[velocity-independent spin-independent interaction]
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Boddy and VG (2018)
momentum-transfer rate time
momentum-transfer cross section
momentum-transfer rate momentum dependance of the interaction operator
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signal shape angular scale
Boddy and VG (2018)
signal
Fan et al, 2010; Fitzpatrick et al, 2012; Anand et al, 2013
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Boddy and VG (2018)
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Boddy and VG (2018)
Age of the Universe ~1000 years: less than 1 in 100 000 scatterings is with DM.
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Boddy and VG, in prep. (2019)
PRELIMINARY
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Next-generation ground-based CMB observatories => high resolution measurements.
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Next-generation ground-based CMB observatories => high resolution measurements. Proposed: CMB-S4
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Next-generation ground-based CMB observatories => high resolution measurements. Proposed: CMB-S4 Funded: Simons Observatory
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Li, VG, + (2018)
See also: SO collaboration science goals [1808.07445]
velocity-independent scattering
DM interactions do NOT look like other science targets, given well-measured CMB lensing.
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today
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scale
Dark matter interactions suppress structure on small scales.
Variance
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scale
Dark matter interactions suppress structure on small scales.
Variance
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Bullock and Boylan-Kolchin (2017)
Galaxy surveys: SDSS, DES; Upcoming: LSST,DESI,...
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Bullock and Boylan-Kolchin (2017)
Galaxy surveys: SDSS, DES; Upcoming: LSST,DESI,... Big Question: Can we use small-scale structure to study fundamental physics?
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Bullock and Boylan-Kolchin (2017)
Challenges: Galaxy surveys: SDSS, DES; Upcoming: LSST,DESI,... Big Question: Can we use small-scale structure to study fundamental physics?
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Bullock and Boylan-Kolchin (2017)
Challenges: Galaxy surveys: SDSS, DES; Upcoming: LSST,DESI,... Big Question: Can we use small-scale structure to study fundamental physics? Observational: smaller halos host fainter galaxies [completeness correction]
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Bullock and Boylan-Kolchin (2017)
Challenges: Galaxy surveys: SDSS, DES; Upcoming: LSST,DESI,... Big Question: Can we use small-scale structure to study fundamental physics? Observational: smaller halos host fainter galaxies [completeness correction] Theoretical: baryonic physics and non-linear evolution [galaxy-halo connection]
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Horizon size
crit χ
decoupling redshift: proxy for halo mass
∼ 10 M
8 sun
Nadler, VG,+ (ApJ Letters 2019; )
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Horizon size
crit χ
Population of Milky Way satellite galaxies => no lack of structure => limits on DM scattering.
decoupling redshift: proxy for halo mass
∼ 10 M
8 sun
Nadler, VG,+ (ApJ Letters 2019; )
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Population of smallest galaxies in Milky Way's orbit => no lack of structure on corresponding scales => limits on DM scattering. Nadler, VG,+ (ApJ Letters 2019; ) Promise: 3 orders of magnitude better than Planck.
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Lots of data coming: Simons Observatory, CMB-S4, LSST, DESI, HERA, SKA, EDGES, SARAS, DD experiments,...
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~200 M yrs
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time
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Bowman, + (2018). [Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of reionization Signature]
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Bowman, + (2018).
NB: Is it in the sky? Is it cosmological?
[Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of reionization Signature]
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Bowman, + (2018).
NB: Is it in the sky? Is it cosmological?
[Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of reionization Signature]
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Bowman, + (2018).
NB: Is it in the sky? Is it cosmological?
[Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of reionization Signature]
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Baryons are cold!
Bowman, + (2018) and Barkana (2018); see also: Munoz, + (2016)
Dark matter-baryon interactions?!
Millicharge:
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Boddy, VG, + (2018) Kovetz, Poulin, VG, + (2018)
Fractional charge Dark matter mass [MeV]
Excluded
See also: Xu, + (2018); Slatyer, + (2018); Wu, + (2018); Dvorkin, + (2014).
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Boddy, VG, + (2018).
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EDGES signal is inconsistent with Planck, if more than 0.5% of DM is millicharged. Boddy, VG, + (2018).
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Cosmological probes are already very sensitive. Comprehensive analyses are essential to establish a discovery.
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