Marco Taoso et al JCAP03(2008)022 doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2008/03/022
Marco Taoso1,2, Gianfranco Bertone2 and Antonio Masiero1
Show affiliationsAn extraordinarily rich zoo of non-baryonic dark matter candidates has been proposed over the last three decades. Here we present a ten-point test that a new particle has to pass in order to be considered a viable DM candidate. (I) Does it match the appropriate relic density? (II) Is it cold? (III) Is it neutral? (IV) Is it consistent with BBN? (V) Does it leave stellar evolution unchanged? (VI) Is it compatible with constraints on self-interactions? (VII) Is it consistent with direct DM searches? (VIII) Is it compatible with gamma-ray constraints? (IX) Is it compatible with other astrophysical bounds? (X) Can it be probed experimentally?
95.35.+d Dark matter (stellar, interstellar, galactic, and cosmological)
Issue 03 (March 2008)
Received 25 January 2008, accepted for publication 28 February 2008
Published 25 March 2008
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