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Direct detection experiments aimed at uncovering the elusive nature of dark matter (DM) have made significant progress in probing ever lower cross-sections for DM-nucleon interactions. At the same time, an upper limit in the cross-section…

The impact of dark matter-neutrino ($\nu$DM) interactions on cosmological perturbations has regained attention, spurred by indications of non-zero couplings from high-multipole cosmic microwave background data, weak lensing, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Sebastian Trojanowski , Lei Zu

High resolution N-body simulations of cold dark matter (CDM) models predict that galaxies and clusters have cuspy halos with excessive substructure. Observations reveal smooth halos with central density cores. One possible resolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Vijay K. Narayanan , David N. Spergel , Romeel Davé , Chung-Pei Ma

In this paper we present an efficient method for constraining both thermal and non-thermal Dark Matter (DM) scenarios with the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest, based on a simple and flexible parametrisation capable to reproduce the small scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Riccardo Murgia , Vid Iršič , Matteo Viel

Similarly to warm dark matter which features a cut-off in the matter power spectrum due to free-streaming, many interacting dark matter models predict a suppression of the matter power spectrum on small length scales through collisional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-23 Markus R. Mosbech , Celine Boehm , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

We discuss the viability of a light particle ($\sim 30$ eV neutrino) with strong self-interactions as a dark matter candidate. The interaction prevents the neutrinos from free-streaming during the radiation dominated regime so galaxy sized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 Fernando Atrio-Barandela , Sacha Davidson

We derive conservative upper limits on the dark-matter--nucleon scattering cross-section for sub-GeV mass dark matter. Working exclusively within the low-energy chiral effective theory, we derive bounds that are independent of the details…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-20 Peter Cox , Matthew J. Dolan , Avirup Ghosh

In this work, we explore the phenomenology of generalized dark matter (GDM) which interacts with photons ($\gamma$). We assume that DM establishes elastic scattering with $\gamma$ when it has already become nonrelativistic, otherwise the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Zhihuan Zhou , Gang Liu , Yuhao Mu , Lixin Xu

We revisit the signatures from collisions of cosmic-rays on sub-GeV dark matter (DM) in the Milky Way. In addition to the upscattered DM component that can be probed by existing DM and neutrino experiments widely discussed, we examine the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-09 Gang Guo , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Meng-Ru Wu , Qiang Yuan

High-energy neutrinos provide a potentially powerful and distinctive probe for dark matter (DM) - neutrino interactions, particularly in environments with enhanced DM densities, such as the DM spikes predicted to form around supermassive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Khushboo Dixit , Gopolang Mohlabeng , Soebur Razzaque

The elastic scattering between dark matter particles and radiation represents an attractive possibility to solve a number of discrepancies between observations and standard cold dark matter predictions, as the induced collisional damping…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Miguel Escudero , Laura Lopez-Honorez , Olga Mena , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Pablo Villanueva-Domingo

Neutrinos are often considered as a portal to new physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) and might possess phenomenologically interesting interactions with dark matter (DM). This paper examines the cosmological imprints of DM that interacts…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-19 Isaac R. Wang , Xun-Jie Xu

We investigate a well known scenario of interaction in the dark sector where the vacuum energy is interacting with cold dark matter throughout the cosmic evolution in light of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data from final Planck…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Weiqiang Yang , Supriya Pan , Rafael C. Nunes , David F. Mota

In this study, we investigate the constraints on secret self-interactions of neutrinos by examining the impact of radiative scattering of ultrahigh-energy neutrinos. These neutrinos are produced from the decay of superheavy dark matter and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-30 Mansi Dhuria , Bishnu Gupta Teli

We investigate generalized interacting dark matter-dark energy scenarios with a time-dependent coupling parameter, allowing also for freedom in the neutrino sector. The models are tested in the phantom and quintessence regimes,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Weiqiang Yang , Eleonora Di Valentino , Olga Mena , Supriya Pan

Due to shielding, direct detection experiments are in some cases insensitive to dark matter candidates with very large scattering cross sections with nucleons. In this paper, we revisit this class of models, and derive a simple analytic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-13 Dan Hooper , Samuel D. McDermott

We investigate constraints on scalar dark matter (DM) by analyzing the Lyman-alpha forest, which probes structure formation at medium and small scales, and also by studying its cosmological consequences at high and low redshift. For scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-18 Takeshi Kobayashi , Riccardo Murgia , Andrea De Simone , Vid Iršič , Matteo Viel

We study the DM-neutrino interaction in the framework of simplified model. The phenomenology of such an interaction are derived. We also investigate the bound on DM-neutrino interaction from the LHC and neutrino telescopes. We find that for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-07 Reinard Primulando , Patipan Uttayarat

We present new observational constraints on the elastic scattering of dark matter with electrons for dark matter masses between 10 keV and 1 TeV. We consider scenarios in which the momentum-transfer cross section has a power-law dependence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 David Nguyen , Dimple Sarnaaik , Kimberly K. Boddy , Ethan O. Nadler , Vera Gluscevic

We investigate the elastic scattering cross section between dark matter and protons using the DES Year 3 weak lensing data. This scattering induces a dark acoustic oscillation structure in the matter power spectra. To address non-linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-07 Chi Zhang , Lei Zu , Hou-Zun Chen , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Yi-Zhong Fan