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Motivated by the collisionless cold dark matter small scale structure problem, we propose an asymmetric dark matter model where dark matter particle interact with each other via a massive dark gauge boson. This model easily avoid the strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-31 Zien Chen , Kairui Ye , Mengchao Zhang

Models involving an interaction between the Dark Matter and the Dark Energy sectors have been proposed to alleviate the long standing Hubble constant tension. In this paper we analyze whether the constraints and potential hints obtained for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Eleonora Di Valentino , Olga Mena

In most cosmological models, the equation of state of the dark matter is assumed to be zero, which means that the dark matter is pressure-less or cold. While this hypothesis is based on the abundance of cold dark matter in the universe,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Supriya Pan , Weiqiang Yang , Eleonora Di Valentino , David F. Mota , Joseph Silk

The existence of dark matter particles that carry phenomenologically relevant self-interaction cross sections mediated by light dark sector states is considered to be severely constrained through a combination of experimental and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-08 Nicolás Bernal , Xiaoyong Chu , Suchita Kulkarni , Josef Pradler

New measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the Planck mission have greatly increased our knowledge about the Universe. Dark radiation, a weakly interacting component of radiation, is one of the important ingredients in our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-03 Maria Archidiacono , Elena Giusarma , Steen Hannestad , Olga Mena

An extra dark radiation component can be present in the universe in the form of sterile neutrinos, axions or other very light degrees of freedom which may interact with the dark matter sector. We derive here the cosmological constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-14 Roberta Diamanti , Elena Giusarma , Olga Mena , Maria Archidiacono , Alessandro Melchiorri

A component of the dark matter could consist of two darkly charged particles with a large mass ratio and a massless force carrier. This `atomic' dark sector could behave much like the baryonic sector, cooling and fragmenting down to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-04 Akshay Ghalsasi , Matthew McQuinn

Cosmological models describing the non-gravitational interaction between dark matter and dark energy are based on some phenomenological choices of the interaction rates between dark matter and dark energy. There is no such guiding rule to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Supriya Pan , German S. Sharov , Weiqiang Yang

We investigate a cosmological model in which a fraction of the dark matter is atomic dark matter (ADM). This ADM consists of dark versions of the electron and of the proton, interacting with each other and with dark photons just as their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Ellie Hughes , Fei Ge , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Lloyd Knox , Srinivasan Raghunathan

We study the possibility that a dark group, a gauge group with particles interacting with the standard model particles only via gravity, is responsible for containing the dark energy and dark matter required by present day observations. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Axel de la Macorra

The recent observational evidence for the current cosmic acceleration have stimulated renewed interest in alternative cosmologies, such as scenarios with interaction in the dark sector (dark matter and dark energy). In general, such models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 R. S. Goncalves , J. S. Alcaniz , A. Dev , D. Jain

Self-Interacting Dark Matter models can successfully explain dark matter (DM) production through interactions confined within the dark sector. However, they often lack measurable experimental signals due to their secluded nature. Including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-16 Esau Cervantes , Andrzej Hryczuk

Secret contact interactions among eV sterile neutrinos, mediated by a massive gauge boson $X$ (with $M_X \ll M_W$), and characterized by a gauge coupling $g_X$, have been proposed as a mean to reconcile cosmological observations and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Francesco Forastieri , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Gianpiero Mangano , Alessandro Mirizzi , Paolo Natoli , Ninetta Saviano

We investigate a phenomenological non-gravitational coupling between dark energy and dark matter, where the interaction in the dark sector is parameterized as an energy transfer either from dark matter to dark energy or the opposite. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-11 Riccardo Murgia , Stefano Gariazzo , Nicolao Fornengo

It is generally assumed that the two dark components of the energy density of the universe, a smooth component called dark energy and a fluid of nonrelativistic weakly interacting particles called dark matter, are independent of each other…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark B. Hoffman

In this letter, we report precise and robust observational constraints on dark matter-dark energy scattering cross section, using the latest data from cosmic microwave background (CMB) Planck temperature and polarization, baryon acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-06 Suresh Kumar , Rafael C. Nunes

We analyze a cosmological model featuring an interaction between dark energy and dark matter in light of the measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background released by three independent experiments: the most recent data by the Planck…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-13 Yuejia Zhai , William Giarè , Carsten van de Bruck , Eleonora Di Valentino , Olga Mena , Rafael C. Nunes

We present the cosmological constraints on the cross section of baryon-dark matter interactions for the dark matter mass below the MeV scale from the Planck CMB (cosmic microwave background) and SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Junpei Ooba , Horoyuki Tashiro , Kenji Kadota

An interaction between dark matter and dark energy is usually introduced by a phenomenological modification of the matter conservation equations, while the Einstein equations are left unchanged. Starting from some general and fundamental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-16 Nicola Tamanini

We present improved constraints on an interacting vacuum model using updated astronomical observations including the first data release from Planck. We consider a model with one dimensionless parameter, $\alpha$, describing the interaction…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-09 Yuting Wang , David Wands , Gong-Bo Zhao , Lixin Xu