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The idea of Dark Matter (DM) with self interaction was invoked to resolve a number of discrepancies between the simulation based predictions by collisionless cold DM and the astrophysical observations on galactic and subgalactic scales.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-04 Kamakshya Prasad Modak

Observations of the high redshift universe provide a promising avenue for constraining the nature of the dark matter (DM). This will be even more true with the advent of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). We run cosmological simulations…

Dark matter (DM) with self-interactions is a promising solution for the small-scale problems of the standard cosmological model. Here we perform the first cosmological simulation of frequent DM self-interactions, corresponding to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Moritz S. Fischer , Marcus Brüggen , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg , Klaus Dolag , Felix Kahlhoefer , Antonio Ragagnin , Andrew Robertson

In this work, we propose a non-standard dark matter (NSDM) model in which the equation of state (EoS) of dark matter (DM) is parameterized as $w_{\rm dm} = w_2 a^2$, and this DM model is motivated by the idea that DM must become cold dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 Yan-Hong Yao , Yi-Hao Shen , Tian-Nuo Li , Guo-Hong Du , Yungui Gong

Models in which a subcomponent of dark matter interacts with dark radiation have been proposed as a solution to the Hubble tension. In this framework, the interacting subcomponent of dark matter is in thermal equilibrium with the dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Manuel A. Buen-Abad , Zackaria Chacko , Ina Flood , Can Kilic , Gustavo Marques-Tavares , Taewook Youn

We investigate the interactions of large composite dark matter (DM) states with the Standard Model (SM) sector. Elastic scattering with SM nuclei can be coherently enhanced by factors as large as A^2, where A is the number of constituents…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-21 Edward Hardy , Robert Lasenby , John March-Russell , Stephen M. West

The increasingly significant tensions within $\Lambda$CDM, combined with the lack of detection of dark matter (DM) in laboratory experiments, have boosted interest in non-minimal dark sectors, which are theoretically well-motivated and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Niklas Becker , Deanna C. Hooper , Felix Kahlhoefer , Julien Lesgourgues , Nils Schöneberg

We investigate the elastic scattering cross section between dark matter and protons using the DES Year 3 weak lensing data. This scattering induces a dark acoustic oscillation structure in the matter power spectra. To address non-linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-07 Chi Zhang , Lei Zu , Hou-Zun Chen , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Yi-Zhong Fan

Neutrinos and dark matter (DM) are two of the least understood components of the Universe, yet both play crucial roles in cosmic evolution. Clues about their fundamental properties may emerge from discrepancies in cosmological measurements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Lei Zu , William Giarè , Chi Zhang , Eleonora Di Valentino , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Sebastian Trojanowski

We study a two-parameter extension of the cosmological standard model $\Lambda$CDM in which cold dark matter interacts with a new form of dark radiation. The two parameters correspond to the energy density in the dark radiation fluid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-14 Julien Lesgourgues , Gustavo Marques-Tavares , Martin Schmaltz

The cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm provides a remarkably good description of the Universe's large-scale structure. However, some discrepancies exist between its predictions and observations at very small sub-galactic scales. To address…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-04 Atrideb Chatterjee , Sourav Mitra , Amrita Banerjee

Dark Matter (DM) is an elusive form of matter which has been postulated to explain astronomical observations through its gravitational effects on stars and galaxies, gravitational lensing of light around these, and through its imprint on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-07 James Bateman , Ian McHardy , Alexander Merle , Tim R. Morris , Hendrik Ulbricht

We revisit dark matter (DM) capture in celestial objects, including the impact of multiple scattering, and obtain updated constraints on the DM-proton cross section using observations of white dwarfs. Considering a general form for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-13 Basudeb Dasgupta , Aritra Gupta , Anupam Ray

Constraints on the properties of the cosmological dark matter have previously been obtained in a model-independent fashion using the Generalised Dark Matter (GDM) framework. Here we extend that work in several directions: We consider the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-05 Daniel B Thomas , Michael Kopp , Katarina Markovič

The predicted present-day amplitude of matter fluctuations based on cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy data has sometimes been found discrepant with more direct measurements of late-time structure. This has motivated many…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-14 Alex Laguë , Fiona McCarthy , Mathew Madhavacheril , J. Colin Hill , Frank J. Qu

In this paper, we explore the impact of Dark Matter-photon interactions on the CMB angular power spectrum. Using the one-year data release of the Planck satellite, we derive an upper bound on the Dark Matter-photon elastic scattering cross…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-01 Ryan J. Wilkinson , Julien Lesgourgues , Celine Boehm

The influence of considering a generalized dark matter (GDM) model, which allows for a non-pressure-less dark matter and a non-vanishing sound speed in the non-linear spherical collapse model is discussed for the Einstein-de Sitter-like…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 F. Pace , Z. Sakr , I. Tutusaus

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), a scalar particle coupled to the gravitational field without self-interaction whose mass range is $m \sim 10^{-24} - 10^{-20}\ \rm{eV}$, is one of the promising alternative dark matter candidates to cold dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Hiroki Kawai , Masamune Oguri , Alfred Amruth , Tom Broadhurst , Jeremy Lim

Interactions between dark matter (DM) and radiation (photons or neutrinos) in the early Universe suppress density fluctuations on small mass scales. Here we perform a thorough analysis of structure formation in the fully non-linear regime…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-14 J. A. Schewtschenko , R. J. Wilkinson , C. M. Baugh , C. Boehm , S. Pascoli

We investigate an extended cosmological model motivated by the asymptotic safety of gravitational field theory, in which the matter and radiation densities and the cosmological constant receive a correction parametrized by the parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Li-Yang Gao , Ze-Wei Zhao , She-Sheng Xue , Xin Zhang