Warm decaying dark matter and the hubble tension

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/06/005MaRDI QIDQ5069151zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Celeste Keith, Dan Hooper, Nikita G. Blinov

Publication date 8 April 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06114

zbMATH Keywords

cosmology of theories beyond the SMdark matter theorycosmological parameters from LSScosmological parameters from CMBR

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

Abstract: If a fraction of the dark matter is unstable and decays into dark radiation at around the time of matter-radiation equality, it could impact the expansion history of the universe in a way that helps to ameliorate the long-standing tension between the locally measured value of the Hubble constant and the value inferred from measurements of the cosmic microwave background and baryon acoustic oscillations (assuming standard $Lambda$CDM cosmology). If this component of decaying dark matter is cold, however, it will modify the evolution of the gravitational potentials, leading to inconsistencies with these same data sets. With this in mind, we consider here a component of decaying warm dark matter, with a free-streaming length that is long enough to remain consistent with existing data. We study the background and perturbation evolution of warm decaying dark matter, and use cosmological data to constrain the mass, abundance and decay rate of such a particle. We find that a component of warm decaying dark matter can significantly reduce the tension between local and cosmological determinations of the Hubble constant.

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