Dark Matter: Particle Physics and Cosmology

Exercises

1. Natural units.
Express the following quantities in natural units.
1) Mass of the Sun 2) Age of the Universe 3) Bohr radius 4) Density of water 5) Temperature of the
CMB 6) A light year 7) Size of our galaxy.
2. Derive Hubbles law
H0 dL = z + O(z 2 )

3. Express the quantities in the first column of the table below as functions of time t, conformal time ,
temperature T , and scale factor a.
t

P
s
a
T
H
4. Sterile neutrino decoupling.
Sterile neutrinos are SM singlets with interactions much weaker than those of the SM neutrinos. Suppose
its thermal averaged cross section with the SM can be parameterized as
hvi =

T2
m4W

What is the value of so that this sterile neutrino decouples just before muon decoupling? And what is
the temperature of the sterile neutrino today?