501. Probing sub-GeV dark matter-baryon scattering with cosmological observables.
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Weishuang Linda Xu, Dvorkin, Cora, and Chael, Andrew
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PHYSICS periodicals , *BARYONS , *SCATTERING (Physics) - Abstract
We derive new limits on the elastic scattering cross section between baryons and dark matter using cosmic microwave background data from the Planck satellite and measurements of the Lyman-alpha forest flux power spectrum from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Our analysis addresses generic cross sections of the form σ ∝ vn, where v is the dark matter-baryon relative velocity, allowing for constraints on the cross section independent of specific particle physics models. We include high-ℓ polarization data from Planck in our analysis, improving over previous constraints. We apply a more careful treatment of dark matter thermal evolution than previously done, allowing us to extend our constraints down to dark matter masses of ~MeV. We show in this work that cosmological probes are complementary to current direct detection and astrophysical searches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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