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We put constraints on the epoch of dark matter formation for a class of non-WIMP (Weakly Interacting Massive Particle) dark matter candidates. These models allow a fraction of Cold Dark Matter (CDM) to be formed between the epoch of Big…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Abir Sarkar , Subinoy Das , Shiv K. Sethi

We explore the possible phases of a condensed dark matter (DM) candidate taken to be in the form of a fermion with a Yukawa coupling to a scalar particle, at zero temperature but at finite density. This theory essentially depends on only…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-21 Raghuveer Garani , Michel H. G. Tytgat , Jérôme Vandecasteele

The observed Lyman-$\alpha$ flux power spectrum (FPS) is suppressed on scales below $\sim~ 30~{\rm km~s}^{-1}$. This cutoff could be due to the high temperature, $T_0$, and pressure, $p_0$, of the absorbing gas or, alternatively, it could…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Antonella Garzilli , Andrii Magalich , Tom Theuns , Carlos S. Frenk , Christoph Weniger , Oleg Ruchayskiy , Alexey Boyarsky

(Context) We calculate constraints from current and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements on annihilating dark matter (DM) with masses below the electroweak scale: m_{DM}=5-100 GeV. In particular, we focus our attention on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Gert Hütsi , Jens Chluba , Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal

We examine the cosmological and astrophysical signatures of a "dark baryon," a neutral fermion that mixes with the neutron. As the mixing is through a higher-dimensional operator at the quark level, production of the dark baryon at high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-09 David McKeen , Maxim Pospelov , Nirmal Raj

An analysis of the Fermi gamma ray space telescope data has recently revealed a resolved gamma-ray feature close to the galactic center which is consistent with monochromatic photons at an energy of about 130 GeV. If interpreted in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-17 Masaki Asano , Torsten Bringmann , Gunter Sigl , Martin Vollmann

Using cosmological particle hydrodynamical simulations and uniform ultraviolet backgrounds, we compare Lyman-$\alpha$ forest flux spectra predicted by the conventional cold dark matter (CDM) model, the free-particle wave dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Ka-Hou Leong , Hsi-Yu Schive , Ui-Han Zhang , Tzihong Chiueh

We analyze a new class of FCNC processes, the $f \to f^{\prime} \, \bar{\gamma}$ decays of a fermion $f$ into a lighter (same-charge) fermion $f^{\prime}$ plus a {\it massless} neutral vector boson, a {\it dark photon} $\bar{\gamma}$. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-23 Emidio Gabrielli , Barbara Mele , Martti Raidal , Elena Venturini

Leptophilic sub-MeV spin-zero dark matter (DM) decays into photons via one-loop processes, a scenario that has been in part overlooked in current literature. In this work, we provide updated and comprehensive upper limits on scalar,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Gabriele Montefalcone , Gilly Elor , Kimberly K. Boddy , Nicola Bellomo

The parameters of cosmological model with cold dark matter and cosmological constant (Lambda CDM) have been determined on a basis of three-year cosmic microwave background observations by space mission WMAP, as well as the data on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 S. Apunevych , B. Venhlovska , Yu. Kulinich , B. Novosyadlyj

A combined analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Lyman-a forest data allows to constrain the matter power spectrum from small scales of about 1 Mpc/h all the way to the horizon scale. The long lever arm and complementarity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-08 Matteo Viel , Martin G. Haehnelt , Antony Lewis

We are approaching a new era to probe the 21-cm neutral hydrogen signal from the period of cosmic dawn. This signal offers a unique window to the virgin Universe, e.g., to study dark matter models with different small-scale behaviours. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-21 Venno Vipp , Andi Hektor , Gert Hütsi

We consider dark matter in a minimal extension of the Standard Model (SM) which breaks electroweak symmetry dynamically and leads to a complete unification of the SM and technicolor coupling constants. The unification scale is determined to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-13 Kimmo Kainulainen , Kimmo Tuominen , Jussi Virkajärvi

We examine a cosmological scenario where dark matter is coupled to a variable vacuum energy while baryons and photons are two decoupled components for a spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetime. We apply the $\chi^{2}$ method to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-01 Luis P. Chimento , Martín G. Richarte , Iván E. Sánchez García

We re-formulate cosmological perturbations in the decaying cold dark matter model, and calculate cosmological microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. By comparing our theoretical predictions with recent observational data from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kiyotomo Ichiki , Masamune Oguri , Keitaro Takahashi

We explore the whole parameter space of the singlet fermionic cold dark matter model with respect to constraints on, first, the relic density and second, gamma-ray lines up to 10 TeV. We investigate 44000 random sample models which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-25 Reza Moazzemi

One of the best motivated hypotheses in cosmology states that most of the matter in the universe is in the form of weakly-interacting massive particles that decoupled early in the history of the universe and cooled adiabatically to an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Abraham Loeb , Matias Zaldarriaga

We propose a gauged $B-L$ extension of the standard model (SM) where light neutrinos are of Dirac type by virtue of tiny Yukawa couplings with the SM Higgs. To achieve leptogenesis, we include additional heavy Majorana fermions without…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-15 Devabrat Mahanta , Debasish Borah

Recent radio observations have obtained stringent constraints for annihilating dark matter. In this article, we use the radio continuum spectral data of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) to analyze the dark matter annihilation signals. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-15 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

This study sets new constraints on Cold+Warm Dark Matter (CWDM) models by leveraging the small-scale suppression of structure formation imprinted in the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest. Using the Sherwood-Relics suite, we extract high-fidelity flux…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Olga Garcia-Gallego , Vid Iršič , Martin G. Haehnelt , Matteo Viel , James S. Bolton