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Long-lived particles (LLPs) provide an interesting window into physics beyond the Standard Model, offering characteristic signatures at colliders and in cosmology. In this work, we investigate LLPs decays into dark matter. If the lifetime…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-24 Mickael V. S. de Farias , Rodrigo Holanda , Matheus M. A. Paixao , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Priscila V. dos Santos

I consider constraints on a phenomenological decaying-dark-matter model, in which two weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) species have a small mass splitting, and in which the heavier particle decays to the lighter particle and a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-22 Annika H. G. Peter

We derive constraints on dark matter (DM) annihilation cross section and decay lifetime from cross-correlation analyses of the data from Fermi-LAT and weak lensing surveys that cover a wide area of $\sim660$ squared degrees in total. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-29 Masato Shirasaki , Oscar Macias , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Satoshi Shirai , Naoki Yoshida

The precision of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments, specifically its lensing reconstruction, has reached the limit where non-linear corrections cannot be ignored. Neglecting these corrections results in biased constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Cynthia Trendafilova , Ali Rida Khalife , Silvia Galli

While the $\Lambda$CDM model succeeds on large scales, its validity on smaller scales remains uncertain. Recent works suggest that non-halo dark matter structures, such as filaments and walls, could significantly influence gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Baptiste Jego , Giulia Despali , Tamara Richardson , Jens Stücker

We study three cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way(MW)-sized halos including a comparison with the dark matter(DM)-only counterparts. We find one of our simulated galaxies with interesting MW-like features. Thanks to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Pol Mollitor , Emmanuel Nezri , Romain Teyssier

If dark matter decays or annihilates into electrons and positrons, it can affect radiation and cosmic-ray backgrounds. We review a novel, more general analysis of constraints on decaying dark matter models, by introducing the response…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-13 Le Zhang

We generalize lower limits on the dark matter (DM) particle mass $m$ derived from Milky Way (MW) satellite galaxy abundances to scenarios in which DM is an ultralight scalar field produced with a field power spectrum peaked at a subhorizon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-18 Ethan O. Nadler , Mustafa A. Amin , Risa H. Wechsler , M. Sten Delos , Andrew Benson , Vera Gluscevic

We present constraints on decaying and annihilating dark matter (DM) in the 4 keV to 10 GeV mass range, using published results from the satellites HEAO-1, INTEGRAL, COMPTEL, EGRET, and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. We derive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Rouven Essig , Eric Kuflik , Samuel D. McDermott , Tomer Volansky , Kathryn M. Zurek

We test the luminosity function of Milky Way satellites as a constraint for the nature of Dark Matter particles. We perform dissipationless high-resolution N-body simulations of the evolution of Galaxy-sized halo in the standard Cold Dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Andrea V. Maccio' , Fabio Fontanot

We investigate the degeneracy between the effects of ultra-light axion dark matter and baryonic feedback in suppressing the matter power spectrum. We forecast that galaxy shear data from the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Calvin Preston , Keir K. Rogers , Alexandra Amon , George Efstathiou

Inspired by the decaying dark matter (DM) which can explain cosmic ray anomalies naturally, we consider the supersymmetric Standard Model with three right-handed neutrinos (RHNs) and R-parity, and introduce a TeV-scale DM sector with two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-15 Zhaofeng Kang , Tianjun Li

In this work, we investigate a decaying dark matter scenario and its associated indirect detection signatures. The model consists of a scalar singlet with a lifetime exceeding the age of the Universe. Stability is ensured by a $Z_2$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-23 A. Carrillo-Monteverde , L. López-Lozano , F. San Juan-Villegas

We study the importance of baryonic physics on predictions of the matter power spectrum as it is relevant for forthcoming weak lensing surveys. We quantify the impact of baryonic physics using a set of three cosmological numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Douglas H. Rudd , Andrew R. Zentner , Andrey V. Kravtsov

Dark matter decays into invisible particles can leave an imprint in large-scale structure surveys due to a characteristic redshift-dependent suppression of the power spectrum. We present a model with two quasi-degenerate singlet fermions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-25 Lea Fuß , Mathias Garny , Alejandro Ibarra

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

When the Dark Matter mass is below the eV-scale, its cosmological occupation number exceeds the ones of photons from the cosmic microwave background as well as of relic neutrinos. If such Dark Matter decays to pairs of neutrinos, it implies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Kyrylo Bondarenko , Alexey Boyarsky , Marco Nikolic , Josef Pradler , Anastasia Sokolenko

We study sub-GeV dark matter (DM) particles that may annihilate or decay into SM particles producing an exotic injection component in the Milky Way that leaves an imprint in both photon and cosmic ray (CR) fluxes. Specifically, the DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-25 Pedro De la Torre Luque , Shyam Balaji , Jordan Koechler

The decaying vacuum model (DV), treating dark energy as a varying vacuum, has been studied well recently. The vacuum energy decays linearly with the Hubble parameter in the late-times, $\rho_\Lambda(t) \propto H(t)$, and produces the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. L. Tong , H. Noh

Dark matter (DM) could couple to particles in the Standard Model (SM) through a light vector mediator. In the limit of small coupling, this portal could be responsible for producing the observed DM abundance through a mechanism known as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-19 Cora Dvorkin , Tongyan Lin , Katelin Schutz