期刊
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/08/012
关键词
neutrino masses from cosmology; dark matter simulations; Lyman alpha forest
资金
- ERC-StG cosmolGM
- INDARK grant [PD51]
- PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe)
The free-streaming of keV-scale particles impacts structure growth on scales that are probed by the Lyman-alpha forest of distant quasars. Using an unprecedentedly large sample of medium-resolution QSO spectra from the ninth data release of SDSS, along with a state-of-the-art set of hydrodynamical simulations to model the Lyman-alpha forest in the non-linear regime, we issue one of the tightest bounds to date, from Ly-alpha data alone, on pure dark matter particles: mX > 4.09 keV (95% CL) for early decoupled thermal relics such as a hypothetical gravitino, and correspondingly m(s) > 24.4 keV (95% CL) for a non-resonantly produced right-handed neutrino. This limit depends on the value on n(s), and Planck measures a higher value of ns than SDSS-III/BOSS. Our bounds thus change slightly when Ly-alpha data are combined with CMB data from Planck 2016. The limits shift to mX > 2.96 keV (95% CL) and m(s) > 16.0 keV (95% CL). Thanks to SDSS-III data featuring smaller uncertainties and covering a larger redshift range than SDSS-I data, our bounds confirm the most stringent results established by previous works and are further at odds with a purely non-resonantly produced sterile neutrino as dark matter.
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