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Cosmological observations of the recent universe suggest that dark energy equation of state parameter $w$ is growing with time, departing from a cosmological constant for which $w=-1$. Standard quintessence models allow for a varying…

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The impact of dark matter-neutrino interactions on the measurement of the cosmological parameters has been investigated in the past in the context of massless neutrinos exclusively. Here we revisit the role of a neutrino-dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Markus R. Mosbech , Celine Boehm , Steen Hannestad , Olga Mena , Julia Stadler , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

The present study reveals observational constraints on the coupling between dark components of anisotropic Bianchi type I universe. We assume interaction between dark matter and dark energy and split the continuity equation with inclusion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-20 Hassan Amirhashchi , Anil Kumar Yadav , Nafis Ahmad , Vikrant Yadav

Coupled dark matter-dark energy scenarios are modeled via a dimensionless parameter $\xi$, which controls the strength of their interaction. While this coupling is commonly assumed to be constant, there is no underlying physical law or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Weiqiang Yang , Olga Mena , Supriya Pan , Eleonora Di Valentino

Non-gravitational interaction between dark matter and dark energy has been considered in a spatially flat Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) universe. The interaction rate is assumed to be linear in the energy densities of dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-07 Supriya Pan , Jaume de Haro , Weiqiang Yang , Jaume Amorós

The \(w_{\dagger}\)VCDM framework provides a theoretically well-controlled extension of \(\Lambda\)CDM within the class of minimally modified gravity theories, allowing for flexible cosmological background evolution and linear perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Artur Ladeira , Rafael C. Nunes , Supriya Pan , Weiqiang Yang

In this study, we employ dynamical systems methods to analyse the large-scale structure by considering two distinct interaction models (linear and non-linear) within the dark sector, associated with a specific dynamical dark energy model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-02 Dumiso Mithi , Saikat Charkraborty , Shambel Sahlu , Amare Abebe

In interacting dark energy (DE) and dark matter (DM) scenarios, the interaction function typically includes a coupling parameter $\xi$ that quantifies the strength of energy exchange between the dark sectors. While $\xi$ is often assumed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Weiqiang Yang , Sibo Zhang , Olga Mena , Supriya Pan , Eleonora Di Valentino

In this work we study a phenomenological non-gravitational interaction between dark matter and dark energy. The scenario studied in this work extends the usual interaction model proportional to the derivative of the dark component density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-14 Josue De-Santiago , Iván E. Sánchez G. , David Tamayo

In this work, we investigate the constraints on the total neutrino mass in the scenario of vacuum energy interacting with cold dark matter (abbreviated as I$\Lambda$CDM) by using the latest cosmological observations. We consider four…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-16 Hai-Li Li , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

A pressureless dark matter component fits well with several cosmological observations. However, there are indications that cold dark matter may encounter challenges in explaining observations at small scales, particularly at galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 Weiqiang Yang , Supriya Pan , Eleonora Di Valentino , Olga Mena , David F. Mota , Subenoy Chakraborty

We use WMAP5 and other cosmological data to constrain model parameters in quintessence cosmologies, focusing also on their shift when we allow for non-vanishing neutrino masses. The Ratra-Peebles (RP) and SUGRA potentials are used here, as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-28 G. La Vacca , J. R. Kristiansen

In this work we investigate the interaction between dark matter and dark energy for a coupling that obeys the Wang-Meng decaying law, $\rho_{{\rm DM}}\propto (1+z)^{3-\epsilon}$, and the Barboza-Alcaniz dark energy parametric model,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Rafael C. Nunes , Edésio M. Barboza

We investigate an interacting dark energy-dark matter model within the quintessence framework, characterized by the coupling term $Q_0 = \alpha \kappa \rho_m \dot{\phi} \left[1 - \beta R/(6H^2) \right]$, and the scalar field evolves under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Anirban Chatterjee , Yungui Gong

We present a new study on the elastic scattering cross section of dark matter (DM) and neutrinos using the latest cosmological data from Planck and large-scale structure experiments. We find that the strongest constraints are set by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-13 Ryan J. Wilkinson , Celine Boehm , Julien Lesgourgues

I consider a scenario proposed by Fardon, Nelson and Weiner where dark energy and neutrinos are connected. As a result, neutrino masses are not constant but depend on the neutrino number density. By examining the full equation of state for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 R. D. Peccei

We explore the dynamics of cosmological models with two coupled dark components with energy densities $\rho_A$ and $\rho_B$. We assume that the coupling is of the form $Q=Hq(\rho_A,\rho_B)$, so that the dynamics of the two components turns…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-23 Claudia Quercellini , Marco Bruni , Amedeo Balbi , Davide Pietrobon

We study a cosmological model in which phantom dark energy is coupled to dark matter by phenomenologically introducing a coupled term to the equations of motion of dark energy and dark matter. This term is parameterized by a dimensionless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Rong-Gen Cai , Anzhong Wang

In this paper, we report the results of constraining the dynamical dark energy with a divergence-free parameterization, $w(z) = w_{0} + w_{a}(\frac{\ln(2+z)}{1+z}-\ln2)$, in the presence of spatial curvature and massive neutrinos, with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Hong Li , Xin Zhang

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