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Owing to the renewed interest in dark matter after the upgrade of the large hadron collider and its dedication to dark matter research it is timely to reassess the whole problem. Considering dark matter is one way to reconcile the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-06 Werner A. Hofer

The dark-matter candidates of particle physics invariably possess electromagnetic interactions, if only via quantum fluctuations. Taken en masse, dark matter can thus engender an index of refraction which deviates from its vacuum value. Its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 S. Gardner , D. C. Latimer

We analyze strongly lensed images in 8 galaxy clusters to measure their dark matter density profiles in the radial region between 10 kpc and 150 kpc, and use this to constrain the self-interaction cross section of dark matter (DM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Kevin E. Andrade , Jackson Fuson , Sophia Gad-Nasr , Demao Kong , Quinn Minor , M. Grant Roberts , Manoj Kaplinghat

In the scalar theory of gravitation with a preferred reference frame, a consistent formulation of electrodynamics in the presence of gravitation needs to introduce an additional energy tensor: the interaction energy tensor. This energy is…

General Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 Mayeul Arminjon

The cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm provides a remarkably good description of the Universe's large-scale structure. However, some discrepancies exist between its predictions and observations at very small sub-galactic scales. To address…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-04 Atrideb Chatterjee , Sourav Mitra , Amrita Banerjee

We investigate interacting quark matter (IQM), including the perturbative QCD correction and color superconductivity, for both up-down quark matter ($ud$QM) and strange quark matter (SQM). We first derive an equation of state (EOS) unifying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-20 Chen Zhang , Robert B. Mann

We consider a recently proposed model in which dark matter interacts with a thermal background of dark radiation. Dark radiation consists of relativistic degrees of freedom which allow larger values of the expansion rate of the universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Manuel A. Buen-Abad , Martin Schmaltz , Julien Lesgourgues , Thejs Brinckmann

We obtain the first cosmological constraints on interactions between dark matter and protons within the formalism of nonrelativistic effective field theory developed for direct detection. For each interaction operator in the effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-06 Kimberly K. Boddy , Vera Gluscevic

To illustrate the complementarity of the linear collider and astrophysics bounds on the light (MeV-scale mass) dark matter (DM), we study the constraints on the magnetic dipole DM from the DM-electron interactions at the proposed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-28 Kenji Kadota , Joseph Silk

Other nongravitational heating processes are needed to resolve the disagreement between the absence of cool gas components in the centers of galaxy clusters revealed recently by Chandra and XMM observations and the expectations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Bo Qin , Xiang-Ping Wu

Dark matter interacts gravitationally, but it presumably interacts weakly through other channels, especially with respect to regular luminous matter. We look at different ways in which dark matter may couple to other fields. We briefly…

General Physics · Physics 2018-09-27 Kevin J. Ludwick

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

Self-interacting dark matter has been proposed as a solution to small scale problems in cosmological structure formation, and hints of dark matter self scattering have been observed in mergers of galaxy clusters. One of the simplest models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-25 Matti Heikinheimo , Martti Raidal , Christian Spethmann , Hardi Veermae

Constraints are placed on the spin-independent interaction cross section of dark matter with regular matter by refining two methods. First, dark matter--cosmic ray interactions are considered, wherein cosmic ray protons collide with dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Gregory D. Mack , Adithya Manohar

We calculate the radial profiles of galaxies where the nuclear region is self-gravitating, consisting of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) with $F$ degrees of freedom. For sufficiently high density this dark matter becomes collisional,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-07 Curtis J. Saxton , Ziri Younsi , Kinwah Wu

While the behavior of the dominant component of the dark matter is reasonably well established by cosmological observables, its particle nature and interactions with the rest of the matter are not known. We consider three dark matter models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-24 Gautham A P , Shiv Sethi

The particle mass of dark matter (DM) was previously constrained using kinematics of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies to $m > 3 \times 10^{-19}\,\mathrm{eV}$. This constraint, which excludes the "fuzzy" range of ultra-light dark matter from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 Simon May , Neal Dalal , Andrey Kravtsov

In the vast expanse of our galaxy, white dwarfs (WDs) are natural sentinels, capturing the enigmatic dark matter (DM) particles that incessantly traverse their interiors. These celestial bodies provide a unique vantage point for probing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-06 Jia-Shu Niu

Self-Interacting Dark Matter (SIDM) represents a compelling alternative to collisionless dark matter, with diverse phenomenological signals from dwarf galaxy to galaxy cluster scales. We present new constraints on the SIDM cross section…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Jackson H. O'Donnell , Tesla E. Jeltema , M. Grant Roberts , James Nightingale , Abigail Flowers , Dhruv Aldas

We investigate the cosmological effects of a neutrino interaction with cold dark matter. We postulate a neutrino that interacts with a ``neutrino interacting dark matter'' (NIDM) particle with an elastic-scattering cross section that either…