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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Année : 2014

Strongest model-independent bound on the lifetime of Dark Matter

B. Audren
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G. Mangano
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T. Tram
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Dark Matter is essential for structure formation in the late Universe so it must be stable on cosmological time scales. But how stable exactly? Only assuming decays into relativistic particles, we report an otherwise model independent bound on the lifetime of Dark Matter using current cosmological data. Since these decays affect only the low-$\ell$ multipoles of the CMB, the Dark Matter lifetime is expected to correlate with the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ as well as curvature $\Omega_k$. We consider two models, including $r$ and $r+\Omega_k$ respectively, versus data from Planck, WMAP, WiggleZ and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, with or without the BICEP2 data (if interpreted in terms of primordial gravitational waves). This results in a lower bound on the lifetime of CDM given by 160Gyr (without BICEP2) or 200Gyr (with BICEP2) at 95% confidence level.
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hal-01116335 , version 1 (13-02-2015)

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B. Audren, J. Lesgourgues, G. Mangano, P. D. Serpico, T. Tram. Strongest model-independent bound on the lifetime of Dark Matter. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014, 1412, pp.028. ⟨hal-01116335⟩
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