Strongly interacting massive particle

In astrophysics SIMP is an abbreviation of Strongly Interacting Massive Particle. SIMPs could form the inferred dark matter despite their strong interactions with ordinary matter [1].

SIMPs have been proposed as a solution for the ultra high energy cosmic ray problem [2,3] and for the absence of cooling flows [4,5]. Constraints from various experiments and observations on SIMP dark matter are given in [6,7,8,9,10].

References

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[9] S. Mitra, preprint.

[10] D. Javorsek II, E. Fischbach and V. Teplitz, ApJ 568, 1 (2002).