Unitarity limits on the mass and radius of dark-matter particles
- 5 February 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 64 (6) , 615-618
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.64.615
Abstract
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× fm. A lower limit to the relic abundance of such particles is also found.
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