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A cosmological model is proposed for the current Universe consisted of non-interacting baryonic matter and interacting dark components. The dark energy and dark matter are coupled through their effective barotropic indexes, which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-15 Luis P. Chimento , Monica Forte , Gilberto M. Kremer

The history of dark universe physics can be traced from processes in the very early universe to the modern dominance of dark matter and energy. Here, we review the possible nontrivial role of strong interactions in cosmological effects of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-30 V. Beylin , M. Khlopov , V. Kuksa , N. Volchanskiy

The absolute stability of a dark matter (DM) particle is not a binding requirement. Here we suggest a few scenarios where the DM particle is liable to decay via extremely feeble interactions. This can happen via inexplicably small Yukawa…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-31 Laura Covi , Avirup Ghosh , Tanmoy Mondal , Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya

In this work we model two non-linear directly interacting scenarios in dark sector of the universe with the dimensionless parameter $\alpha$ and $\beta$, which dominate the energy exchange between dark energy and dark matter. The central…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 Jiangang Kang

Coupling dark matter to light new particles is an attractive way to combine thermal production with strong velocity-dependent self-interactions. Here we point out that in such models the dark matter annihilation rate is generically enhanced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-12 Torsten Bringmann , Felix Kahlhoefer , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg , Parampreet Walia

We discuss present and future cosmological constraints on variations of the fine structure constant $\alpha$ induced by an early dark energy component having the simplest allowed (linear) coupling to electromagnetism. We find that current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-08 Erminia Calabrese , Eloisa Menegoni , C. J. A. P. Martins , Alessandro Melchiorri , Graca Rocha

Dark sectors lying beyond the Standard Model and containing sub-GeV particles which are bilinearly coupled to nucleons would induce quantum forces of the Casimir-Polder type in ordinary matter. Such new forces can be tested by a variety of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-27 Philippe Brax , Sylvain Fichet , Guillaume Pignol

Although there is overwhelming evidence of dark matter from its gravitational interaction, we still do not know its precise gravitational interaction strength or whether it obeys the equivalence principle. Using the latest available…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-21 Yang Bai , Jordi Salvado , Ben A. Stefanek

The nature of dark matter is one of the most thrilling riddles for both cosmology and particle physics nowadays. While in the typical models the dark sector is composed only by weakly interacting massive particles, an arguably more natural…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-26 Urbano Franca , Roberto A. Lineros , Joaquim Palacio , Sergio Pastor

The recent WMAP data have confirmed that exotic dark matter together with the vacuum energy (cosmological constant) dominate in the flat Universe. The nature of the dark matter constituents cannot be determined till they are directly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-21 J. D. Vergados

Cosmological models where dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE) interact with each other are the general scenarios in compared to the non-interacting models. The interaction is usually motivated from the phenomenological ground and thus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-27 Weiqiang Yang , Supriya Pan , Andronikos Paliathanasis

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

We investigate the background dynamics when dark energy is coupled to dark matter in the universe described by Einstein cosmology and Loop Quantum Cosmology. We introduce a new general form of dark sector coupling, which presents us a more…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Songbai Chen , Bin Wang , Jiliang Jing

Models where the dark matter component of the universe interacts with the dark energy field have been proposed as a solution to the cosmic coincidence problem, since in the attractor regime both dark energy and dark matter scale in the same…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Amendola , G. C. Campos , R. Rosenfeld

Minimal atomic dark matter with its distinctive cooling mechanisms offers an instructive framework for understanding the potential impact of dark matter on small-scale structure formation and early cosmology. The model consists of two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-12 Jared Barron , Rouven Essig , Megan H. McDuffie , Jesús Pérez-Ríos , Gregory Suczewski

A model for the universe with tachyonic and fermionic fields interacting through a Yukawa-type potential is investigated. It is shown that the tachyonic field answers for the initial accelerated regime and for the subsequent decelerated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-23 Marlos O. Ribas , Fernando P. Devecchi , Gilberto M. Kremer

The cosmological model with an interaction between dynamical quintessence dark energy and cold dark matter is considered. Evolution of a dark energy equation of state parameter is defined by a dark energy adiabatic sound speed and a dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 Roman Neomenko

Recent results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) provide evidence for a dynamical dark-energy component, whose equation of state appears to have recently crossed the phantom divide. In this Letter, we present an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 E. Abdalla , O. P. F. Piedra , A. A. Escobal , A. M. Vicente , F. B. Abdalla , B. Wang , A. Marins

Ultralight scalar dark matter may couple to the Standard Model through dimension-five operators that contain the field-strength tensors of the gauge interactions. Recent progress in nuclear clocks is projected to increase the sensitivity to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-01 Gabriel Assant , Astrid Eichhorn , Benjamin Knorr

A number of proposed and ongoing experiments search for axion dark matter with a mass nearing the limit set by small scale structure (${\cal O} ( 10 ^{ - 21 } {\rm eV} ) $). We consider the late universe cosmology of these models, showing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-11 Jeff A. Dror , Jacob M. Leedom