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Strongest model-independent bound on the lifetime of Dark Matter

Audren, Benjamin  
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Lesgourgues, Julien  
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Mangano, Gianpiero
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2014
Journal Of Cosmology And Astroparticle Physics

Dark Matter is essential for structured formation in the late Universe so it must be stable on cosmological time scales. But how stable exactly? Only assuming decays into relativistic on 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-l multipoles of the CMB, the Dark Matter lifetime is expected to correlate with the tensor-to-scalar ratio r as well as the curvature Omega(k.) We consider two model, 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 160 Gyr (without BICEP2) or 200 Gyr (with BICEP2) at 95% confidence level.

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DOI
10.1088/1475-7516/2014/12/028
Web of Science ID

WOS:000346298800028

Author(s)
Audren, Benjamin  
Lesgourgues, Julien  
Mangano, Gianpiero
Serpico, Pasquale Dario
Tram, Thomas
Date Issued

2014

Publisher

Iop Publishing Ltd

Published in
Journal Of Cosmology And Astroparticle Physics
Issue

12

Start page

028

Subjects

cosmological parameters from LSS

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integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect

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cosmological parameters from CMBR

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cosmological perturbation theory

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REVIEWED

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February 20, 2015
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