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Identifying signatures of dark matter at indirect-detection experiments is generally more challenging for scenarios involving non-minimal dark sectors such as Dynamical Dark Matter (DDM) than for scenarios involving a single dark particle.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-11 Kimberly K. Boddy , Keith R. Dienes , Doojin Kim , Jason Kumar , Jong-Chul Park , Brooks Thomas

Astrophysical observations spanning dwarf galaxies to galaxy clusters indicate that dark matter (DM) halos are less dense in their central regions compared to expectations from collisionless DM N-body simulations. Using detailed fits to DM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Manoj Kaplinghat , Sean Tulin , Hai-Bo Yu

Using a recent geochemical reconstruction of the Phanerozoic climate which exhibits a 32 Ma oscillation with a phase and the secondary modulation expected from the vertical the motion of the solar system perpendicular to the galactic plane…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-10 Nir J. Shaviv

Though the nature of dark matter remains elusive, two models have come to prominence with testable predictions: cold dark matter (CDM) and self-interacting dark matter (SIDM). While CDM remains the widely accepted model, SIDM was introduced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Zachary J. Hoelscher , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Akaxia Cruz , N. Nicole Sanchez

In this paper, we construct the first asymmetric strongly interacting massive particles (SIMP) dark matter (DM) model, where a new vector-like fermion and a new complex scalar both having nonzero chemical potentials can be asymmetric DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-31 Shu-Yu Ho

In two-component self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models with inter-species interactions, mass segregation arises naturally from collisional relaxation, enhancing central densities and gravothermal evolution. We demonstrate that models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Daneng Yang , Yi-Zhong Fan , Siyuan Hou , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) has gathered growing attention as a solution to the small scale problems of the collisionless cold dark matter (DM). We investigate the SIDM using stellar kinematics of 23 ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Kohei Hayashi , Masahiro Ibe , Shin Kobayashi , Yuhei Nakayama , Satoshi Shirai

We develop a minimal, testable framework for two-component self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) in which a dominant, moderately self-interacting species coexists with an ultra-strongly self-interacting subcomponent (uSIDM). A light vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 M. Grant Roberts , Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Pierce Giffin , Stefano Profumo

Dark Matter (DM) may belong to a hidden sector that is only feebly interacting with the Standard Model (SM) and may have never been in thermal equilibrium in the Early Universe. In this case, the observed abundance of dark matter particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-07 Thomas Hambye , Michel H. G. Tytgat , Jérôme Vandecasteele , Laurent Vanderheyden

Planckian Interacting Dark Matter (PIDM) is a minimal scenario of dark matter assuming only gravitational interactions with the standard model and with only one free parameter, the PIDM mass. PIDM can be successfully produced by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Mathias Garny , Andrea Palessandro , McCullen Sandora , Martin S. Sloth

We initiate the study of novel thermal dark matter (DM) scenarios where present-day annihilation of DM in the galactic center produces boosted stable particles in the dark sector. These stable particles are typically a subdominant DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Kaustubh Agashe , Yanou Cui , Lina Necib , Jesse Thaler

We address the question of whether the upcoming generation of dark matter search experiments and colliders will be able to discover if the dark matter in the Universe has two components of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-23 Stefano Profumo , Kris Sigurdson , Lorenzo Ubaldi

It has been suggested that cold dark matter (CDM) has difficulties in explaining tentative evidence for noncuspy halo profiles in small galaxies, and the low velocity dispersions observed in the largest Milky Way satellites ("too big to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-27 James M. Cline , Zuowei Liu , Guy D. Moore , Wei Xue

Well known scaling laws among the structural properties of the dark and the luminous matter in disc systems are too complex to be arisen by two inert components that just share the same gravitational field. This brings us to critically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-10 Paolo Salucci , Nicola Turini

It has recently been proposed that the relatively inert, highly symmetric, neutral flavor singlet scalar hadron made of uuddss quarks may have a mass < 2 (m_p + m_e). This is consistent with QCD theory, and with existing accelerator and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-01 Glennys R. Farrar

We use high-resolution hydrodynamical simulation to test the difference of halo properties in cold dark matter (CDM) and a self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) scenario with a constant cross-section of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Giulia Despali , Martin Sparre , Simona Vegetti , Mark Vogelsberger , Jesús Zavala , Federico Marinacci

A small fraction of millicharged dark matter (DM) is considered in the literature to give an interpretation about the enhanced 21-cm absorption at the cosmic dawn. Here we focus on the case that the main component of DM is self-interacting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 Lian-Bao Jia

We discuss the possibility of realising a two-component dark matter (DM) scenario where the two DM candidates differ from each other by virtue of their production mechanism in the early universe. One of the DM candidates is thermally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-13 Debasish Borah , Arnab Dasgupta , Sin Kyu Kang

Discrepancies of the $\Lambda {\rm CDM}$ model with small-scale cosmological observations and stringent constraints from direct search experiments cast doubts over typical weak scale cold dark matter candidates e.g. WIMPs. Self-interacting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-09 Manoranjan Dutta