Comment on "Is Dark Matter with Long-Range Interactions a Solution to All Small-Scale Problems of CDM Cosmology?"
Abstract
In Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 (2012) 231301, van den Aarssen et al. attempt to solve all the small-scale structure problems in the cold-dark-matter scenario by introducing interaction between the dark-matter particle and an MeV-mass vector boson. In addition, the latter is coupled to ordinary neutrinos, and the neutrino-vector boson coupling constant 10-5 < gnu < 0.1 is required for that purpose. We show that this dark-matter scenario is subject to restrictive constraints from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis.
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