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If dark matter interacts with nuclei or electrons, then elastic collisions with constituents of stars will cause some of the galactic dark matter to fall below the escape velocity and become gravitationally bound. For asymmetric dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-14 Stephanie Beram , Aaron C. Vincent

Dark matter annihilation might power the first luminous stars in the Universe. These types of stars, known as dark stars, could form in $(10^6\mathrm{-}10^8)\,M_\odot$ protohalos at redshifts $z \sim 20$, and they could be much more…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-30 Youjia Wu , Sebastian Baum , Katherine Freese , Luca Visinelli , Hai-Bo Yu

The one-parameter fuzzy dark matter (FDM) model has faced increasingly stringent constraints from both Lyman-$\alpha$ forest observations and local measurements of dwarf galaxies. A natural extension to mitigate these limits is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yi Zhao , Yu-Ming Yang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin

We present a model of vector dark matter that interacts through a low-mass vector mediator based on the Higgsing of an SU(2) dark sector. The dark matter is charged under a U(1) gauge symmetry. Even though this symmetry is broken, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-08 Ian Chaffey , Philip Tanedo

We revise the conditions for the physical viability of a cosmological model in which dark matter has bulk viscosity and also interacts with dark energy. We have also included radiation and baryonic matter components; all matter components…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Arturo Avelino , Yoelsy Leyva , L. Arturo Urena-Lopez

We construct a self-interacting scalar dark matter (DM) model with local discrete $Z_{3}$ symmetry that stabilizes a weak scale scalar dark matter $X$. The model assumes a hidden sector with a local $U(1)_X$ dark gauge symmetry, which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-30 P. Ko , Yong Tang

We suggest that two-to-two dark matter fusion may be the relaxation process that resolves the small-scale structure problems of the cold collisionless dark matter paradigm. In order for the fusion cross section to scale correctly across…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-06 Samuel D. McDermott

It is generally assumed that the two dark components of the energy density of the universe, a smooth component called dark energy and a fluid of nonrelativistic weakly interacting particles called dark matter, are independent of each other…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark B. Hoffman

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

We derive the characteristic scales for physical quantities of dwarf galaxies, such as mass, size, acceleration, and angular momentum, within the self-interacting ultralight dark matter (ULDM) model. Due to the small mass of ULDM, even…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-23 Jae-Weon Lee , Chueng-Ryong Ji

We propose a self-interacting inelastic dark matter (DM) scenario as a possible origin of the recently reported excess of electron recoil events by the XENON1T experiment. Two quasi-degenerate Majorana fermion DM interact within themselves…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-26 Manoranjan Dutta , Satyabrata Mahapatra , Debasish Borah , Narendra Sahu

It is usually assumed that dark matter direct detection is sensitive to a large fraction of the dark matter (DM) velocity distribution. We propose an alternative form of dark matter-nucleus scattering which only probes a narrow range of DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 Yang Bai , Patrick J. Fox

If dark matter has even been in sufficient thermal contact with the visible sector and sufficiently light ($m_\chi\lesssim\mathcal{O}(10)~\text{keV}$), the thermal motion inherited from the visible sector will cause significant free…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Ran Huo , Tao Xu

In this paper, we put forward a connection between the self-interacting dark matter and the Dirac nature of neutrinos. Our exploration involves a $Z_4 \otimes Z_4'$ discrete symmetry, wherein the Dirac neutrino mass is produced through a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-05 Satyabrata Mahapatra , Sujit Kumar Sahoo , Narendra Sahu , Vicky Singh Thounaojam

To date, the presence of dark matter (DM) can be judged only by its gravitational interaction on the visible matter. It is therefore important to find the consequences of this interaction, which can then help to determine both the DM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-06 I. Yu. Kalashnikov , V. M. Chechetkin

We derive the energy-differential cross section and energy loss rate for dissipative self-interacting dark matter (dSIDM) models within the Born regime using perturbative quantum field theory. Six dissipative scenarios are considered,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-13 Garance Lankester--Broche , Josef Pradler

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM), especially bosonic, has been considered a promising candidate to replace cold dark matter (CDM) as it resolves some of the problems associated with CDM. Here, we rule out the possibility that dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Zachary Slepian , Jeremy Goodman

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

We show that the gravothermal collapse of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos can deviate from local thermodynamic equilibrium. As a consequence, the self-similar evolution predicted by the commonly adopted conducting fluid model can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 James Gurian , Simon May

Evidence for dark matter self-interactions has recently been reported based on the observation of a spatial offset between the dark matter halo and the stars in a galaxy in the cluster Abell 3827. Interpreting the offset as due to dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-04 Robyn Campbell , Stephen Godfrey , Heather E. Logan , Andrea D. Peterson , Alexandre Poulin