Macroscopic dark matter constraints for extended mass functions
hep-ph, astro-ph.CO
Submitted: 2026-09-04
Updated: 2026-09-04
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: We compile and recompute a subset of the landscape of constraints for macroscopic dark matter (macros), explicitly including the dependence on the fraction of dark matter in macros f dm.
Abstract
We compile and recompute a subset of the landscape of constraints for macroscopic dark matter (macros), explicitly including the dependence on the fraction of dark matter in macros f dm. This allows us to map these constraints to scenarios with extended mass functions for the macros, which is a generic outcome for many of the assembly processes relevant to macro formation. We compute a number of examples of constraints for extended mass functions, finding that in many cases, wider mass functions can be severely constrained by just the interactions of the tails of the distributions. Finally, we present the code and data required for computing these limits and generating these plots in a publicly accessible repository.
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