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Assuming SUSY is found to be incorrect, what would then be the most compelling candidates for dark matter?
From what I've read, the only remaining candidates appear to be either sterile neutrinos or MOND (MOdified Newtonian Dynamics -- it does seem to keep changing.)
Did I miss anything else plausible?
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How convincing is the evidence for dark matter annihilation at 130 GeV in the galactic center from the Fermi Satellite data?
I listened to Christoph Weniger present his results at SLAC today. See his paper is here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.2797 and also see a different analysis here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.1045. The ...
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What exactly are super WIMPs?
I recently got confused (and slightly annoyed by the lack of technical details) when reading a popular article (authored by Jonathan Feng and Mark Trodden) introducing the concept of super WIMPs.
The ...
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Sparticles: Relationship to supersymmetry and dark matter?
I was attempting to read this paper after watching a show with Brian Greene. As I understand it, sparticles are a prediction of supersymetry, so I was wondering:
Wouldn't the discovery of ...
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Sterile Neutrinos as Dark Matter
There has been recent activity by astrophysicists to determine whether a fourth flavor of neutrino, a sterile neutrino, exists. It would likely be more massive than electron, muon or tau neutrinos. ...
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Neutralino Dark Matter Detection
Assuming supersymmetry exists and a neutralino is stable, it's often seen as a leading dark matter candidate. What would be expected from the interaction of a neutralino and its anti-particle? Has ...
