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Recent weak lensing surveys have revealed that the direct measurement of the parameter combination $S_8equivsigma_8(Omega_m/0.3)^{0.5}$ -- measuring the amplitude of matter fluctuations on 8 $h^{-1}$Mpc scales -- is $sim3sigma$ discrepant with the value reconstructed from cosmic microwave background (CMB) data assuming the $Lambda$CDM model. In this Letter, we show that it is possible to resolve the tension if dark matter (DM) decays with a lifetime of $text{log}_{10}(Gamma^{-1}/ text{Gyr})= 1.75_{-0.95}^{+1.4}$ into one massless and one massive product, and transfers a fraction $varepsilonsimeq 0.7^{+2.7}_{-0.6}%$ of its rest mass energy to the massless component. The velocity-kick received by the massive daughter leads to a suppression of gravitational clustering below its free-streaming length, thereby reducing the $sigma_8$ value as compared to that inferred from the standard $Lambda$CDM model, in a similar fashion to massive neutrino and standard warm DM. Contrarily to the latter scenarios, the time-dependence of the power suppression and the free-streaming scale allows the 2-body decaying DM scenario to accommodate CMB, baryon acoustic oscillation, growth factor and uncalibrated supernova Ia data. We briefly discuss implications for DM model building, galactic small-scale structure problems and the recent Xenon-1T excess. Future experiments measuring the growth factor to high accuracy at $0lesssim zlesssim1$ can further test this scenario.
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The $S_8$ tension is a longstanding discrepancy between the cosmological and local determination of the amplitude of matter fluctuations, parameterized as $S_8equivsigma_8(Omega_m/0.3)^{0.5}$, where $sigma_8$ is the root mean square of matter fluctuations on a 8 $h^{-1}$Mpc scale, and $Omega_m$ is the total matter abundance. It was recently shown that dark matter (DM) decaying into a massless (dark radiation) and a massive (warm DM) species, with a lifetime $Gamma^{-1} simeq 55~ (varepsilon/0.007)^{1.4}$ Gyrs -- where $varepsilon$ represent the mass-energy fraction transferred to the massless component -- can resolve the tension. Thanks to a new, fast and accurate approximation scheme for the warm species, we perform a comprehensive study of this 2-body decaying DM scenario, discussing in details its dynamics and its impact on the CMB and linear matter power spectra. We then confront the robustness of the resolution to the $S_8$ tension against a number of changes in the analysis: different $S_8$ priors, marginalization over the lensing information in Planck data, trading Planck high$-ell$ polarization data for those from the SPTpol collaboration, and the inclusion of the recent results from the Xenon1T collaboration. We conclude that the preference for decaying DM, while entirely driven by the local $S_8$ measurements, does not sensibly degrade the fit to any of the cosmological data-sets considered, and that the model could explain the anomalous electron recoil excess reported by the Xenon1T collaboration.
We propose an X-ray mission called Xenia to search for decaying superweakly interacting Dark Matter particles (super-WIMP) with a mass in the keV range. The mission and its observation plan are capable of providing a major break through in our understanding of the nature of Dark Matter (DM). It will confirm, or reject, predictions of a number of particle physics models by increasing the sensitivity of the search for decaying DM by about two orders of magnitude through a wide-field imaging X-ray spectrometer in combination with a dedicated observation program. The proposed mission will provide unique limits on the mixing angle and mass of neutral leptons, right handed partners of neutrinos, which are important Dark Matter candidates. The existence of these particles is strongly motivated by observed neutrino flavor oscillations and the problem of baryon asymmetry of the Universe. In super-WIMP models, the details of the formation of the cosmic web are different from those of LambdaCDM. The proposed mission will, in addition to the search for decaying Dark Matter, provide crucial insight into the nature of DM by studying the structure of the cosmic web. This will be done by searching for missing baryons in emission, and by using gamma-ray bursts as backlight to observe the warm-hot intergalactic media in absorption.
We constrain and update the bounds on the life-time of a decaying dark matter model with a warm massive daughter particle using the most recent low-redshift probes. We use Supernovae Type-Ia, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and the time delay measurements of gravitationally lensed quasars. These data sets are complemented by the early universe priors taken from the Cosmic Microwave background. For the maximum allowed fraction of the relativistic daughter particle, the updated bounds on the life-time are found to be $tau > 9, rm{Gyr}$ and $tau >11,rm{Gyr}$ at $95%$ C.L., for the two-body and many-body decay scenarios, respectively. We also comment on the recent proposal that the current two-body decaying dark matter model can provide resolution for the $H_0$-tension, by contrasting against the standard $Lambda$CDM model. We infer that the current dark matter decaying scenario is unlikely to alleviate the $H_0$-tension. We find that the decaying dark matter is able to reduce the trend of the decreasing $H_0$ values with increasing lens redshifts observed in the strong lensing dataset.
Seven observations point towards the existence of primordial black holes (PBH), constituting the whole or an important fraction of the dark matter in the Universe: the mass and spin of black holes detected by Advanced LIGO/VIRGO, the detection of micro-lensing events of distant quasars and stars in M31, the non-detection of ultra-faint dwarf satellite galaxies with radius below 15 parsecs, evidences for core galactic dark matter profiles, the correlation between X-ray and infrared cosmic backgrounds, and the existence of super-massive black holes very early in the Universes history. Some of these hints are newly identified and they are all intriguingly compatible with the re-constructed broad PBH mass distribution from LIGO events, peaking on PBH mass $m_{rm PBH} approx 3 M_odot$ and passing all other constraints on PBH abundances. PBH dark matter also provides a new mechanism to explain the mass-to-light ratios of dwarf galaxies, including the recent detection of a diffuse galaxy not dominated by dark matter. Finally we conjecture that between 0.1% and 1% of the events detected by LIGO will involve a PBH with a mass below the Chandrasekhar mass, which would unambiguously prove the existence of PBH.
We study the cosmological effects of two-body dark matter decays where the products of the decay include a massless and a massive particle. We show that if the massive daughter particle is slightly warm it is possible to relieve the tension between distance ladder measurements of the present day Hubble parameter with measurements from the cosmic microwave background.
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