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Dark Matter is essential for structure formation in the late Universe so it must be stable on cosmological time scales. But how stable exactly? Only assuming decays into relativistic particles, we report an otherwise model independent bound…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Benjamin Audren , Julien Lesgourgues , Gianpiero Mangano , Pasquale Dario Serpico , Thomas Tram

Joint analyses of small-scale cosmological structure probes are relatively unexplored and promise to advance measurements of microphysical dark matter properties using heterogeneous data. Here, we present a multidimensional analysis of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-10 Ethan O. Nadler , Simon Birrer , Daniel Gilman , Risa H. Wechsler , Xiaolong Du , Andrew Benson , Anna M. Nierenberg , Tommaso Treu

If a component of cosmological dark matter is made up of massive particles - such as sterile neutrinos - that decay with cosmological lifetime to emit photons, the reionization history of the universe would be affected, and cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Yeung , M. H. Chan , M. -C. Chu

The detection of High Energy Cosmic Rays (HECR) with energies around and beyond GZK expected cutoff has introduced the idea of existence of a decaying Ultra Heavy Dark Matter (UHDM). If this type of particles make a substantial part of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Houri Ziaeepour

If dark matter decays into electrons and positrons, it can affect Galactic radio emissions and the local cosmic ray fluxes. We propose a new, more general analysis of constraints on dark matter. The constraints can be obtained for any…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-09-28 Le Zhang , Javier Redondo , Guenter Sigl

In this paper we update the constraints on the simple decaying cold dark matter (DCDM) model with dark radiation (DR) as decay product. We consider two different regimes of the lifetime, i.e. short-lived and long-lived, and use the most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-13 Andreas Nygaard , Thomas Tram , Steen Hannestad

Since dark matter is only known to have gravitational interactions, it may plausibly decay to gravitons on cosmological timescales. Although such a scenario can be easily realized, there are currently no known limits on this possibility…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-26 David I. Dunsky , Gordan Krnjaic , Elena Pinetti

In this paper, we study a model which is composed by the cosmological constant and dark matter with nonzero equation of state parameter, which could be called as $\Lambda$wDM. In the synchronous gauge, we obtain the perturbation equations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-01 Weiqiang Yang , Lixin Xu

Asymmetric Dark Matter (ADM) models invoke a particle-antiparticle asymmetry, similar to the one observed in the Baryon sector, to account for the Dark Matter (DM) abundance. Both asymmetries are usually generated by the same mechanism and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Mattias Blennow , Enrique Fernandez-Martinez , Olga Mena , Javier Redondo , Paolo Serra

Many experiments have notably reported anomalies in radioactive decay rates with periodic variations and challenged the traditional belief of time-independent decays. This periodicity could potentially be explained by the presence of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-19 Chang-Jie Dai , Tong Li

The particle nature of dark matter remains a mystery. In this paper, we consider two dark matter models---Late Forming Dark Matter (LFDM) and Ultra-Light Axion (ULA) models---where the matter power spectra show novel effects on small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-12 Abir Sarkar , Rajesh Mondal , Subinoy Das , Shiv. K. Sethi , Somnath Bharadwaj , David J. E. Marsh

Forthcoming projects such as the DES, a JDEM, and LSST, aim to measure weak lensing shear correlations with unprecedented accuracy. Weak lensing observables are sensitive to both the distance-redshift relation and the growth of structure in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Andrew P. Hearin , Andrew R. Zentner

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

We consider the Standard Model extended with a dark matter particle in curved spacetime, motivated by the fact that the only current evidence for dark matter is through its gravitational interactions, and we investigate the impact on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-13 Oscar Catà , Alejandro Ibarra , Sebastian Ingenhütt

The Dark Ages and the Cosmic Dawn are an untapped well of information about the particle physics properties of dark matter, which may become accessible with future radio telescopes able to probe the 21-cm signal from atomic hydrogen. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Markus R. Mosbech , Cristina Benso , Felix Kahlhoefer

(Abridged) The effect of baryonic feedback on the dark matter mass distribution is generally considered to be a nuisance to weak gravitational lensing. Measurements of cosmological parameters are affected as feedback alters the cosmic shear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Ludovic van Waerbeke , Massimo Viola , Catherine Heymans

Structure formation at small cosmological scales provides an important frontier for dark matter (DM) research. Scenarios with small DM particle masses, large momenta or hidden interactions tend to suppress the gravitational clustering at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-27 Riccardo Murgia , Alexander Merle , Matteo Viel , Maximilian Totzauer , Aurel Schneider

If dark matter decay or annihilate, a large amount of energy and particles would be released into the cosmic plasma. Therefore, they could modify the thermal and ionization history of our universe, then leave footprints on the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Lu Chen , Ke Wang

In this paper we combine high resolution N-body simulations with a semi analytical model of galaxy formation to study the effects of a possible Warm Dark Matter (WDM) component on the observable properties of galaxies. We compare three WDM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Xi Kang , Andrea V. Macciò , Aaron A. Dutton

The Weakly Interacting Massive Particles(WIMPs) have long been the favored CDM candidate in the standard $\Lambda$CDM model. However, owing to great improvement in the experimental sensitivity in the past decade, some parameter space of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-15 Abineet Parichha , Shiv Sethi