Unitarity Limits on the Mass and Radius of Dark Matter Particles

Sep, 1989
12 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 64 (1990) 615
Report number:
  • CFPA-TH-89-013,
  • FERMILAB-PUB-89-205-A

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Abstract: (APS)
Using partial-wave unitarity and the observed density of the Universe, we show that a stable elementary particle which was once in thermal equilibrium cannot have a mass greater than 340 TeV. An extended object which was once in thermal equilibrium cannot have a radius less than 7.5×10−7 fm. A lower limit to the relic abundance of such particles is also found.
  • dark matter
  • neutral particle: mass
  • upper limit
  • elastic scattering
  • inelastic scattering
  • S-matrix
  • partial wave: unitarity
  • thermodynamics
  • fermion: Majorana
  • fermion: Dirac