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arXiv 1706.04794astro-ph.COhep-ph
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小暗物质晕中暗物质自相互作用的有效描述

Effective description of dark matter self-interactions in small dark matter haloes

Janis Kummer, Felix Kahlhoefer, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg

摘要:

自相互作用的暗物质可能具有惊人的天体物理学特征,例如在合并的星系团中星系和暗物质之间可观察到的偏移。数值N体模拟用于预测这些观测值,通常将星系视为无碰撞的测试粒子,这是一个值得怀疑的假设,因为每个星系都嵌入在自己的暗物质晕中。为了使一个更准确的治疗,我们开发了一个有效的描述小暗物质晕考虑到两个主要的影响,由于暗物质自散射:减速和蒸发。我们指出,自散射可以有相当大的影响,星系的轨迹,减少星系和暗物质合并集群之间的分离。这种效应敏感地依赖于底层粒子物理,特别是自散射截面的角度依赖性,并且不能单独从动量传递截面预测。

英文摘要:

Self-interacting dark matter may have striking astrophysical signatures, such as observable offsets between galaxies and dark matter in merging galaxy clusters. Numerical N-body simulations used to predict such observables typically treat the galaxies as collisionless test particles, a questionable assumption given that each galaxy is embedded in its own dark matter halo. To enable a more accurate treatment we develop an effective description of small dark matter haloes taking into account the two major effects due to dark matter self-scatterings: deceleration and evaporation. We point out that self-scatterings can have a sizeable impact on the trajectories of galaxies, diminishing the separation between galaxies and dark matter in merging clusters. This effect depends sensitively on the underlying particle physics, in particular the angular dependence of the self-scattering cross section, and cannot be predicted from the momentum transfer cross section alone.

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