Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of overclose
If the required self-interaction arises through a light mediator (with mass #92;sim 10 MeV) in the dark sector, this new particle must be unstable to avoid overclosing the universe.
2015, Eugenio Del Nobile, Manoj Kaplinghat, Hai-Bo Yu, “Direct Detection Signatures of Self-Interacting Dark Matter with a Light Mediator”, in arXiv
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