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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.<ref name="wand">B. D. Wandelt, R. Dave, G. R. Farrar, P. C. McGuire, D. N. Spergel and P. J. Steinhardt, ''Self-Interacting Dark Matter'', Marina del Rey 2000, Sources and detection of dark matter and dark energy in the universe, 263 (2000), [http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0006344 preprint].</ref>

SIMPs have been proposed as a solution for the ultra high energy cosmic ray problem <ref name="chung">D. Chung, G. R. Farrar and E. W. Kolb, ''Are ultrahigh energy cosmic rays signals of supersymmetry?'', Phys. Rev. D '''57''', 4606 (1998) [http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9707036 preprint].</ref><ref name="albq">I. F. M. Albuquerque, G. R. Farrar and E. W. Kolb, ''Exotic massive hadrons and ultra-high energy cosmic rays'', Phys. Rev. D '''59''', 015021 (1999) [http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9805288 preprint].</ref> and for the absence of cooling flows.<ref name="qin">B. Qin and X. P. Wu, ''Constraints on the Interaction between Dark Matter and Baryons from Cooling Flow Clusters'', Phys. Rev. Lett. '''87''', 061301 (2001) [http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0106458 preprint].</ref><ref name="chuz">L. Chuzhoi and A. Nusser, ''A limit on the dark matter and baryons interaction cross-section in galaxy clusters'', [http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0408184 preprint].</ref> Constraints from various experiments and observations on SIMP dark matter are given in. <ref name="wand"/><ref name="stark">G. D. Starkman, A. Gould, R. Esmailzadeh, and S. Dimopoulos, ''Opening the window on strongly interacting dark matter'', Phys. Rev. D '''41''', 3594, (1990).</ref><ref name="mcgr">P. C. McGuire and P. J. Steinhardt, ''Cracking Open the Window for Strongly Interacting Massive Particles as the Halo Dark Matter'', Proceedings of the International Cosmic Ray Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 1566 (2001), [http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0105567 preprint].</ref><ref name="cyb">R. H. Cyburt, B. D. Fields, V. Pavlidou and B. D. Wandelt, ''Constraining Strong Baryon-Dark Matter Interactions with Primordial Nucleosynthesis and Cosmic Rays'', Phys. Rev. D '''65''', 123503 (2002) [http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0203240 preprint].</ref><ref name="mitr">S. Mitra, ''Uranus's anomalously low excess heat constrains strongly interacting dark matter'', Phys. Rev. D '''70''', 103517 (2004) [http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0408341 preprint].</ref><ref name="zahar">G. Zaharijas and G. R. Farrar, ''Window in the dark matter exclusion limits'', Phys. Rev. D '''72''', 083502 (2005) [http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0406531 preprint].</ref><ref name="javor">D. Javorsek II, E. Fischbach and V. Teplitz, ''New experimental bounds on the contributions to the cosmological density parameter <math>\Omega</math> from strongly interacting massive particles'', ApJ '''568''', 1 (2002).</ref>.

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