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We present new cosmological constraints in a set of motivated extensions of the $\Lambda$CDM model using the polarization and gravitational lensing measurements from the South Pole Telescope and the Planck CMB temperature observations at…

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Recent observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) show some tension with a $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. For one, the cosmological parameters determined by the CMB are at odds with the expansion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-23 Peter W. Graham , Daniel Green , Joel Meyers

We use measurements of luminosity-dependent galaxy bias at several different redshifts, SDSS at $z=0.05$, DEEP2 at $z=1$ and LBGs at $z=3.8$, combined with WMAP five-year cosmic microwave background anisotropy data and SDSS Red Luminous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Francesco De Bernardis , Paolo Serra , Asantha Cooray , Alessandro Melchiorri

We investigate models that suggest that the vacuum energy decays into cold dark matter (CDM) and into a homogeneous distribution of a thermalized cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is characteristic of an adiabatic vacuum energy decay…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Reuven Opher , Ana Pelinson

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) places a variety of model-independent constraints on the strength interactions of the dominant component of dark matter with the Standard Model. Percent-level subcomponents of the dark matter can evade…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 Roland de Putter , Olivier Doré , Jérôme Gleyzes , Daniel Green , Joel Meyers

In our previous paper [1], we studied a model of dark matter (DM) in which the hidden sector interacts with standard model particles via a hidden photonic portal (HP). We investigated the effects of this new interaction on the hydrogen atom…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-14 S. A. Alavi , F S Kazemian

We consider a self-interacting dark matter model in which the massive dark photon mediating the self-interaction decays to light dark fermions to avoid over-closing the universe. We find that if the model is constrained to explain the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-05 Ran Huo , Manoj Kaplinghat , Zhen Pan , Hai-Bo Yu

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) spectrum is an extraordinary tool for exploring physics beyond the Standard Model. The exquisite precision of the measurement makes it particularly sensitive to small effects caused by hidden sector…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Giorgi Arsenadze , Andrea Caputo , Xucheng Gan , Hongwan Liu , Joshua T. Ruderman

We study the probing prospects of cosmic ray boosted dark matter (DM) in the framework of simplified electron-philic dark photon model. Focusing on the dark matter and dark photon masses around keV $\sim $ MeV scale, we consider the bounds…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-13 Jinmian Li , Junle Pei , Cong Zhang

Measurements of the linear power spectrum of galaxies have placed tight constraints on neutrino masses. We extend the framework of the halo model of cosmological nonlinear matter clustering to include the effect of massive neutrino infall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kevork Abazajian , Eric R. Switzer , Scott Dodelson , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib

We investigate the dynamics of the generalized $\Lambda$CDM model, which the $\Lambda$ term is running with the cosmological time. The $\Lambda(t)$ term emerges from the covariant theory of the scalar field $\phi$ with the self-interacting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-29 Marek Szydlowski , Aleksander Stachowski

Dark sectors provide a compelling theoretical framework for thermally producing sub-GeV dark matter, and motivate an expansive new accelerator and direct-detection experimental program. We demonstrate the power of constraining such dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 Cara Giovanetti , Mariangela Lisanti , Hongwan Liu , Joshua T. Ruderman

We investigate how the dark energy properties change the cosmological limits on sterile neutrino parameters by using recent cosmological observations. We consider the simplest dynamical dark energy models, the $w$CDM model and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 Lu Feng , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Dark photon is a new gauge boson beyond the Standard Model as a kind of dark matter (DM) candidate. Dark photon dark matter (DPDM) interacts with electromagnetic fields via kinetic mixing, implicating an approach to give a constraint with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-24 Tian-Ci Liu , Ming-Xuan Lu , Xiao-Song Hu

The acoustic peaks in the angular power spectrum of cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies play an important role as a probe of the nature of new relativistic particles contributing to the radiation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-03 Gongjun Choi , Chi-Ting Chiang , Marilena LoVerde

The South Pole Telescope (SPT), Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), and Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) have each reported measurements of the cosmic microwave background's (CMB) angular power spectrum which favor the existence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Dan Hooper , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We investigate a class of interacting dark energy and dark matter (DM) models, where dark energy is modeled as a $k$-essence scalar field with an inverse-square potential. Two general forms of interaction are considered: one proportional to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Saddam Hussain , Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu

We investigate the impact of spatial curvature, $\Omega_k$, and dynamical dark energy on the cosmological constraints of the neutrino mass sum, $\sum m_\nu$. Using a joint analysis of the latest CMB (Planck and ACT DR6), BAO (DESI DR2) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-16 Hayyim Pulido-Hernández , Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota

In this work we show how the inclusion of dark matter (DM) direct detection upper bounds in a theoretically consistent manner can affect the allowed parameter space of a DM model. Traditionally, the limits from DM direct detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-14 Cristina Marcos , Miguel Peiro , Sandra Robles

Recent cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements over a large range of angular scales have become sensitive enough to provide interesting constraints on cosmological parameters within a restricted class of models. We use the CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Charles H. Lineweaver , Domingos Barbosa