Published December 15, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Dark matter and the anthropic principle

  • 1. School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)

Description

We evaluate the problem of galaxy formation in the landscape approach to phenomenology of the axion sector. With other parameters of standard ΛCDM cosmology held fixed, the density of cold dark matter is bounded below relative to the density of baryonic matter by the requirement that structure should form before the era of cosmological constant domination of the universe. Galaxies comparable to the Milky Way can only form if the ratio also satisfies an upper bound. The resulting constraint on the density of dark matter is too loose to select a low axion decay constant or small initial displacement angle on anthropic grounds

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
72
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 123520-123520.5
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
37078089
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
AXIONS; BARYONS; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT; COSMOLOGY; DENSITY; MILKY WAY; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; PARTICLE DECAY; UNIVERSE
Descriptors DEC
BOSONS; DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; GALAXIES; GOLDSTONE BOSONS; HADRONS; MATTER; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POSTULATED PARTICLES

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