Published December 15, 2005
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Journal article
Dark matter and the anthropic principle
Creators
- 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
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.123520;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-th/0508161v1;
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
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2005 The American Physical Society