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Ultralight particles are theoretically well-motivated dark matter candidates. In the vicinity of the solar system, these ultralight particles can be described as a superposition of plane waves, resulting in a stochastic field with sizable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-19 Yue-Hui Yao , Yong Tang

We review the physics and phenomenology of wave dark matter: a bosonic dark matter candidate lighter than about 30 eV. Such particles have a de Broglie wavelength exceeding the average inter-particle separation in a galaxy like the Milky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 Lam Hui

We examine solutions of the hydrodynamic equations for dark matter (DM) modeled as a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with axionlike interaction, forming a spherically symmetric halo in dwarf galaxies. Small perturbations and decoherence of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-26 A. V. Nazarenko

An ultra-light bosonic particle of mass around $10^{-22}\,\mathrm{eV}/c^2$ is of special interest as a dark matter candidate, as it both has particle physics motivations, and may give rise to notable differences in the structures on highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Simon May , Volker Springel

The minimal gauge group extension to the standard model (SM) by the local $U(1)_{B-L}$ (MBLSM) is well known as the minimal model to understand neutrino mass origins via the seesaw mechanism, following the gauge principle. This "small"…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-22 Chengfeng Cai , Zhaofeng Kang , Hong-Hao Zhang , Yupan Zeng

The Cold Dark Matter (CDM) model, wherein the dark matter is treated as a pressureless perfect fluid, provides a good fit to galactic and cosmological data. With the advent of precision cosmology, it should be asked whether this simplest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-12 Michael Kopp , Constantinos Skordis , Dan B. Thomas

Axions differ from ordinary cold dark matter, such as WIMPs or sterile neutrinos, because they form a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). As a result, axions accreting onto a galactic halo fall in with net overall rotation. In contrast,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Pierre Sikivie

We develop our novel model of cosmology based on the Bose-Einstein condensation. This model unifies the Dark Energy and the Dark Matter, and predicts multiple collapse of condensation, followed by the final acceleration regime of cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Takeshi Fukuyama , Masahiro Morikawa , Takayuki Tatekawa

We discuss a supersymmetric model for cogenesis of dark and baryonic matter where the dark matter (DM) has mass in the 8-10 GeV range as indicated by several direct detection searches including most recently the CDMS experiment with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Bhaskar Dutta , Rabindra N. Mohapatra , Kuver Sinha

The suppression of the small-scale matter power spectrum is a distinct feature of Warm Dark Matter (WDM), which permits a constraint on the WDM mass from galaxy surveys. In the thermal relic WDM scenario, quantum statistical effects are not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-07 Zhijian Zhang , Weikang Lin

Ultra compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs) have similar properties as massive globular clusters or the nuclei of nucleated galaxies. Recent observations suggesting a high dark matter content and a steep spatial distribution within groups and…

Ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs) are stellar systems with masses of around 10^7 to 10^8 Msun and half mass radii of 10-100 pc. They have some properties in common with massive globular clusters, however dynamical mass estimates have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Holger Baumgardt , Steffen Mieske

About $26\%$ of the matter in our Universe is made up of Dark Matter (DM), which interacts with Standard Model (SM) matter only through gravitational or weak interactions. Many proposals have been made by scientists about the possible…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-03-30 Kalpana Bora

Dark matter (DM) is one of the biggest mystery in the Universe. In this review, after a brief discussion of the DM evidences and the main proposed candidates and scenarios for the DM phenomenon, we focus on recent results on rotating disc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-16 Chiara Di Paolo , Paolo Salucci

Supermassive black hole binary mergers serve as prominent sources of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB), detectable by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs). If dark matter-induced friction is present in the vicinity of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-29 Pratick Sarkar

Ultra-light bosons, naturally appearing in well-motivated extensions to the Standard Model, can constitute all the dark matter. Models with particle mass close to the smallest phenomenologically allowed exhibit coherent field configurations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 Diego Blas , Silvia Gasparotto , Rodrigo Vicente

A novel proposal is made to account for the dark matter component of the Universe. Ultralight dark matter with mass $\leq {\cal{O}}(10^{-22})~eV$ is one of the strong candidates for the missing mass which aids the formation of galaxies as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-19 T R Govindarajan

A gauged $U(1)_X$ symmetry appended to the Standard Model (SM) is particularly well-motivated since it can account for the light neutrino masses by the seesaw mechanism, explain the origin of baryon asymmetry of the universe via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-09 Nobuchika Okada , Satomi Okada , Digesh Raut , Qaisar Shafi

Recent high-resolution simulations that include Cold Dark Matter (CDM) and baryons have shown that baryonic physics can dramatically alter the dark matter structure of galaxies. These results modify our predictions for observed galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-30 Alyson Brooks

Recently a new particle physics model called Bound Dark Matter (BDM) has been proposed in which dark matter (DM) particles are massless above a threshold energy (Ec) and acquire mass below it due to nonperturbative methods. Therefore, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Jorge Mastache , Axel de la Macorra , Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota