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Several astrophysical and cosmological observations suggest the existence of dark matter (DM) through its gravitational effects, yet its nature remains elusive. Despite the lack of DM signals from direct detection experiments, efforts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-04 Aman Gupta , Pooja Bhattacharjee , Pratik Majumdar

Dark matter (DM) with sizeable self-interactions mediated by a light species offers a compelling explanation of the observed galactic substructure; furthermore, the direct coupling between DM and a light particle contributes to the DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-18 Kalliopi Petraki , Lauren Pearce , Alexander Kusenko

In this paper, we construct a viable model for a GeV scale self-interacting dark matter (DM), where the DM was thermally produced in the early universe. Here, a new vector-like fermion with a dark charge under the $U(1)_{D}$ gauge symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-24 Shu-Yu Ho , Pyungwon Ko , Dibyendu Nanda

We systemically evaluate the performance of the self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halo model proposed in arXiv:2305.16176 with matched halos from high-resolution cosmological CDM and SIDM simulations. The model incorporates SIDM effects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-20 Daneng Yang , Ethan O. Nadler , Hai-Bo Yu

Recently, the DAMA/LIBRA collaboration has repeated and reinforced their claim to have detected an annual modulation in their signal rate, and have interpreted this observation as evidence for dark-matter particles at the 8.2 sigma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-26 Dan Hooper , Frank Petriello , Kathryn M. Zurek , Marc Kamionkowski

The idea of Dark Matter (DM) with self interaction was invoked to resolve a number of discrepancies between the simulation based predictions by collisionless cold DM and the astrophysical observations on galactic and subgalactic scales.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-04 Kamakshya Prasad Modak

We argue that WIMP dark matter can annihilate via long-lived "WIMPonium" bound states in reasonable particle physics models of dark matter (DM). WIMPonium bound states can occur at or near threshold leading to substantial enhancements in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-07 John March-Russell , Stephen M. West

Self-interactions facilitate inter-particle redistribution of energy within the dense regions of galactic halos, implying modifications in the density and velocity distribution of dark matter. Simulating dark-matter only isolated halos for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-16 Tirtha Sankar Ray , Sambo Sarkar

Indirect detection is one of the most powerful methods to search for annihilating dark matter. In this work, we investigate the impact of non-perturbative effects in the indirect detection of dark matter. For this purpose we utilize a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-29 Simone Biondini , Julian Bollig , Stefan Vogl

The interacting dark matter (IDM) scenario allows for the acceleration of the Universe without Dark Energy. We constrain the IDM model by using the newly revised observational data including $H(z)$ data and Union2 SNe Ia via the Markov…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Shuo Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu , Nan Liang

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

The short distance behavior of dark matter (DM) at galaxy scales exhibits several features not explained by the typical cold dark matter (CDM) with velocity-independent cross-section. We discuss a particle physics model with a hidden sector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-21 Amin Aboubrahim , Wan-Zhe Feng , Pran Nath , Zhu-Yao Wang

Interactions between dark matter (DM) and relativistic particles at early times suppress structure formation on small scales. In particular, the scattering process transfers heat and momentum from radiation to DM, ultimately reducing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 Wendy Crumrine , Ethan O. Nadler , Rui An , Vera Gluscevic

Among the different strategies aiming to detect WIMP dark matter (DM), a neutrino signal coming from the Sun would be a smoking gun. This possibility relies on the DM capture by the Sun driven by the local DM distribution assumptions: the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-18 A. Nuñez-Castiñeyra , E. Nezri , V. Bertin

Self-Interacting Dark Matter is an attractive alternative to the Cold Dark Matter paradigm only if it is able to substantially reduce the central densities of dwarf-size haloes while keeping the densities and shapes of cluster-size haloes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-26 Jesus Zavala , Mark Vogelsberger , Matthew G. Walker

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is an intriguing alternative to the standard cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm, which predicts that dark matter halos typically have large, isothermal cores. Numerical simulations have shown that dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-16 Frank C. van den Bosch , Shashank Dattathri

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

Dark matter (DM) environments around black holes (BHs) can influence their mergers through dynamical friction, causing gravitational wave (GW) dephasing during the inspiral phase. While this effect is well studied for collisionless dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Amitayus Banik , Jeong Han Kim , Jun Seung Pi , Yuhsin Tsai

Dark matter self-interactions have important implications for the distributions of dark matter in the Universe, from dwarf galaxies to galaxy clusters. We present benchmark models that illustrate characteristic features of dark matter that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-25 Manoj Kaplinghat , Sean Tulin , Hai-Bo Yu

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models feature short-range interactions between dark matter (DM) particles that lead to larger diversity in the inner parts of galactic rotation curves and potentially unique gravitational lensing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-23 David Klemmer , Moritz S. Fischer , Kimberly K. Boddy , Manoj Kaplinghat , Laura Sagunski