Formation of small-scale structure in SUSY CDM
- The lightest supersymmetric particle, most likely the lightest neutralino, is one of the most prominent particle candidates for cold dark matter (CDM). We show that the primordial spectrum of density fluctuations in neutralino CDM has a sharp cut-off, induced by two different damping mechanisms. During the kinetic decoupling of neutralinos, non-equilibrium processes constitute viscosity effects, which damp or even absorb density perturbations in CDM. After the last scattering of neutralinos, free streaming induces neutralino flows from overdense to underdense regions of space. Both damping mechanisms together define a minimal mass scale for perturbations in neutralino CDM, before the inhomogeneities enter the non- linear epoch of structure formation. We find that the very first gravitationally bound neutralino clouds ought to have masses above 10-6M , which is six orders of magnitude above the mass of possible axion miniclusters.
| Verfasserangaben: | Stefan Hofmann, Dominik J. Schwarz, Horst StöckerORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-21069 |
| Dokumentart: | Preprint |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Datum der Veröffentlichung (online): | 14.11.2005 |
| Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2002 |
| Veröffentlichende Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Datum der Freischaltung: | 14.11.2005 |
| Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | CDM; cold dark matter; neutralino; supersymmetric particle |
| Quelle: | To appear in proceedings of "IDM 2002, 4th International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter" [astro-ph/0211325] |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 35493080X |
| Institute: | Physik / Physik |
| DDC-Klassifikation: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
| Lizenz (Deutsch): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
