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Cosmic reionization and dark matter decay can impact observations of the cosmic microwave sky in a similar way. A simultaneous study of both effects is required to constrain unstable dark matter from cosmic microwave background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Isabel M. Oldengott , Daniel Boriero , Dominik J. Schwarz

Decaying Cold Dark Matter (DCDM) is a model that is currently under investigation regarding primarily the $S_8$ tension between cosmic microwave background (CMB) and certain large-scale structure measurements. The decay into one massive and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-13 Lea Fuß , Mathias Garny

We investigate potential constraints from cosmic shear on the dark matter particle mass, assuming all dark matter is made up of light thermal relic particles. Given the theoretical uncertainties involved in making cosmological predictions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-03 Katarina Markovič , Sarah Bridle , Anže Slosar , Jochen Weller

Based on almost 20 years of data collected by the high-resolution spectrometer SPI on board the International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) we present constraints on a decaying dark matter particle undergoing a decay into two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 S. Fischer , D. Malyshev , L. Ducci , A. Santangelo

We analyze the impact of Fermi gamma-ray observations (primarily non-detections) of selected nearby galaxies, including dwarf spheroidals, and of clusters of galaxies on decaying dark matter models. We show that the fact that galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Leanna Dugger , Tesla E. Jeltema , Stefano Profumo

As one of the fundamental unknowns of our Universe, the mass of dark matter remains to be a topic of great interest. We consider the possibility of a time-variation of the dark matter mass. We study the cosmological constraints on a model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-01 Amlan Chakraborty , Anirban Das , Subinoy Das , Shiv K. Sethi

Decaying dark matter (DDM) has emerged as an interesting framework to extend the $\Lambda$-cold-dark-matter (LCDM) model, as many particle physics models predict that dark matter may not be stable over cosmic time and can impact structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Thomas Montandon , Elsa M. Teixeira , Adèle Poudou , Vivian Poulin

We present a set of N-body simulations of a class of models in which an unstable dark matter particle decays into a stable non-interacting dark matter particle, with decay lifetime comparable to the Hubble time. We study the effects of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Mei-Yu Wang , Annika H. G. Peter , Louis E. Strigari , Andrew R. Zentner , Bryan Arant , Shea Garrison-Kimmel , Miguel Rocha

We consider a phenomenological model for a coupling between the dark matter and dark energy fluids and investigate the sensitivity of a weak lensing measurement for constraining the size of this coupling term. Physically, the functional…

We constrain and update the bounds on the life-time of a decaying dark matter model with a warm massive daughter particle using the most recent low-redshift probes. We use Supernovae Type-Ia, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and the time delay…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Balakrishna S. Haridasu , Matteo Viel

We study a phenomenological class of models where dark matter converts to dark radiation in the low redshift epoch. This class of models, dubbed DMDR, characterizes the evolution of comoving dark matter density with two extra parameters,…

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 investigate an extension of the $\Lambda$CDM model where the dark matter (DM) is coupled to photons, inducing a nonconservation of the numbers of particles for both species, where the DM particles are allowed to dilute throughout the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-21 Suresh Kumar , Rafael C. Nunes , Santosh Kumar Yadav

The cosmic microwave background provides constraints on the annihilation and decay of light dark matter at redshifts between 100 and 1000, the strength of which depends upon the fraction of energy ending up in the form of electrons and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-29 James M. Cline , Pat Scott

Upcoming cosmic shear analyses will precisely measure the cosmic matter distribution at low redshifts. At these redshifts, the matter distribution is affected by galaxy formation physics, primarily baryonic feedback from star formation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-02 Chun-Hao To , Shivam Pandey , Elisabeth Krause , Nihar Dalal , Dhayaa Anbajagane , David H. Weinberg

Dark Matter (DM) annihilation and decay during the Dark Ages can affect the cosmic ionization history and leave imprints in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy spectra. CMB polarization anisotropy can be sensitive to such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Junsong Cang , Yu Gao , Yin-Zhe Ma

Decaying dark matter (DDM) scenarios have recently regained attention due to their potential ability to resolve the well-known clustering (or $S_8$) tension between weak lensing (WL) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Jozef Bucko , Sambit K. Giri , Fabian Hervas Peters , Aurel Schneider

Leptophilic sub-MeV spin-zero dark matter (DM) decays into photons via one-loop processes, a scenario that has been in part overlooked in current literature. In this work, we provide updated and comprehensive upper limits on scalar,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Gabriele Montefalcone , Gilly Elor , Kimberly K. Boddy , Nicola Bellomo

Among the several strategies for indirect searches of dark matter, one very promising one is to look for the gamma-rays from decaying dark matter. Here we use the most up-to-date upper bounds on the gamma-ray flux from $10^5$ to $10^{11}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Marco Chianese , Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Rasmi Hajjar , Gennaro Miele , Ninetta Saviano

We derive constraints on the injection of free-streaming dark radiation after big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) by considering the decay of a massive hidden sector particle into dark radiation. Such a scenario has the potential to alleviate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-12 Alexander C. Sobotka , Adrienne L. Erickcek , Tristan L. Smith