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Scalar field dynamics may give rise to a nonzero cosmological variation of fundamental constants. Within different scenarios based on the unification of gauge couplings, the various claimed observations and bounds may be combined in order…

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Bose-Einstein-condensed dark matter, also called scalar-field dark matter (SFDM), has become a popular alternative to cold dark matter (CDM), because it predicts galactic cores, in contrast to the cusps of CDM halos ("cusp-core problem").…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-08 Kevin Pils , Tanja Rindler-Daller

If long-range attractive forces exist and are stronger than gravity then cosmic halo formation can begin in the radiation-dominated era. We study a simple realization of this effect in a system where dark matter fermions have Yukawa…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-09 Guillem Domènech , Derek Inman , Alexander Kusenko , Misao Sasaki

We used high resolution dark matter only cosmological simulations to investigate the structural properties of Lambda Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM) haloes over cosmic time. The haloes in our study range in mass from $\sim 10^{10}$ to $\sim…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Silviu M. Udrescu , Aaron A. Dutton , Andrea V. Macciò , Tobias Buck

We argue that models in which an observable variation of the fine structure constant is explained by motion of a cosmic scalar field, are not stable under renormalization, and require massive fine tuning that cannot be explained by any…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Banks , M. Dine , M. R. Douglas

We characterize the nonlinear evolution of the baryon acoustic feature as traced by the dark matter and halos, using a combination of perturbation theory and N-body simulations. We confirm that the acoustic peak traced by the dark matter is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-24 Nikhil Padmanabhan , Martin White

(Shortened) We use N-body simulations to investigate the structure and dynamical evolution of dark matter halos in galaxy clusters. Our sample consists of nine massive halos from an EdS universe with scale free power spectrum and n = -1.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Giuseppe Tormen , Francois R. Bouchet , Simon D. M. White

In the investigation of the evolution of cosmological perturbations in inflationary universe models the behavior of perturbations during the reheating stage is the most unclear point. In particular in the early reheating phase in which a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Hideo Kodama , Takashi Hamazaki

Dark Energy models with slowly-rolling cosmological scalar field provide a popular alternative to the standard, time-independent cosmological constant model. We study simultaneous evolution of background expansion and growth in the scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Olga Avsajanishvili , Natalia A. Arkhipova , Lado Samushia , Tina Kahniashvili

This paper examines the growth of dark matter and dark energy perturbations within a non-canonical scalar field model characterized by an exponential potential. Through dynamical system analysis, we identify critical points and track the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Zanyar Ebrahimi , Kayoomars Karami

With help of a set of toy N-body models of dark halo formation we study the impact of small scale initial perturbations on the inner density profiles of haloes. We find a significant flattening of the inner slope $\alpha={d \log \rho \over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. V. Pilipenko , A. G. Doroshkevich , V. N. Lukash , E. V. Mikheeva

Light scalar fields very naturally appear in modern cosmological models, affecting such parameters of Standard Model as electromagnetic fine structure constant $\alpha$, dimensionless ratios of electron or quark mass to the QCD scale,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-08-18 V. V. Flambaum , E. V. Shuryak

We follow the spin vector evolutions of well resolved dark matter haloes (containing more than 300 particles) in merger tree main branches from the Millennium and Millennium-II N-body simulations, from z about 3.3 to z = 0. We find that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-06 Jun Hou , Zhijian Luo , Cedric G. Lacey

We train graph neural networks on halo catalogues from Gadget N-body simulations to perform field-level likelihood-free inference of cosmological parameters. The catalogues contain $\lesssim$5,000 halos with masses $\gtrsim…

Halo models of the large scale structure of the Universe are critically examined, focusing on the definition of halos as smooth distributions of cold dark matter. This definition is essentially based on the results of cosmological N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-06 Jose Gaite

We study the mass, velocity dispersion, and anisotropy profiles of $\Lambda$CDM halos using a suite of N-body simulations of unprecedented numerical resolution (the {\it Aquarius Project}). Our analysis confirms a number of results claimed…

We report a robust constrain on the possible variation of fine-structure constant, alpha = e^2/(hbar*c), obtained using O III 4959,5007, nebular emission lines from QSOs. We find Delta-alpha/alpha=-(2.1 +/- 1.6) x 10^(-5) based on a well…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 H. Rahmani , N. Maheshwari , R. Srianand

We use three different cosmological dark matter simulations to study how the orientation of the angular momentum vector (AM) in dark matter haloes evolve with time. We find that haloes in this kind of simulations are constantly affected by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 S. Contreras , N. Padilla , C. D. P. Lagos

We investigate the spatial clustering of dark matter halos, collapsing from $1-4 \sigma$ fluctuations, in the redshift range $0 - 5$ using N-body simulations. The halo bias of high redshift halos ($z \geq 2$) is found to be strongly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-19 Charles Jose , Cedric G. Lacey , Carlton M. Baugh

Halo bias links the statistical properties of the spatial distribution of dark matter halos to those of the underlying dark matter field, providing insights into clustering properties in both general relativity (GR) and modified-gravity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Jorge Enrique García-Farieta , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Andrés Balaguera-Antolínez