Effects of electrically charged dark matter on cosmic microwave background anisotropies

Abstract

We examine the possibility that dark matter consists of charged massive particles (CHAMPs) in view of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. The evolution of cosmological perturbations of CHAMP with other components is followed in a self-consistent manner, without assuming that CHAMP and baryons are tightly coupled. We incorporate for the first time the "kinetic re-coupling" of the Coulomb scattering, which is characteristic of heavy CHAMPs. By a direct comparison of the predicted CMB temperature/polarization auto-correlations in CHAMP models and the observed spectra in the Planck mission, we show that CHAMPs leave sizable effects on CMB spectra if they are lighter than $10^{11}\mathrm{GeV}$. Our result can be applicable to any CHAMP as long as its lifetime is much longer than the cosmic time at the recombination ($\sim 4\times 10^5\mathrm{yr}$). An application to millicharged particles is also discussed.

15 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in PRD, two plots added to show the potential constraints on CHAMPs from the precise BAO measurements and to summarize constraints on millicharged particles, appendix added to discuss the residual gauge degrees of freedom in the synchronous gauge

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