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Numerous observations on astrophysical and cosmological scales can be interpreted to mean that, in addition to the familiar kind of matter well described by the standard model of elementary particle physics, there exists Dark Matter (DM).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-05 Gaurav Goswami

The Hubble tension persists as a challenge in cosmology. Even early dark energy (EDE) models, initially considered the most promising for alleviating the Hubble tension, fall short of addressing the issue without exacerbating other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Yan-Hong Yao , Xin-He Meng

We explore interacting dark matter (DM) models that allow DM and baryons to scatter off of each other with a cross section that scales with relative particle velocity. Using the effective field theory of large-scale structure, we perform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Adam He , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Rui An , Trey Driskell , Vera Gluscevic

We report the first calculation of light scattering on heavy dark matter (DM) particles. We show that despite the fact that DM has no direct coupling to photons, the light-DM($\gamma\chi$) ($m_\chi \sim 1$ TeV) cross-section is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-18 A. Acar , C. Isaacson , M. Bashkanov , D. P. Watts

Dark Scattering (DS) is an interacting dark energy model characterised by pure momentum exchange between dark energy and dark matter. It is phenomenologically interesting because it is unconstrained by CMB data and can alleviate the $S_8$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 M. Tsedrik , S. Lee , K. Markovic , P. Carrilho , A. Pourtsidou , C. Moretti , B. Bose , E. Huff , A. Robertson , P. L. Taylor , J. Zuntz

The recent observational evidence for the current cosmic acceleration have stimulated renewed interest in alternative cosmologies, such as scenarios with interaction in the dark sector (dark matter and dark energy). In general, such models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 R. S. Goncalves , J. S. Alcaniz , A. Dev , D. Jain

Recently, it has been shown that electrons and positrons from dark matter (DM) annihilations provide an excellent fit to the Fermi, PAMELA, and HESS data. Using this DM model, which requires an enhancement of the annihilation cross section…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-20 Anders Pinzke , Christoph Pfrommer , Lars Bergstrom

Recent gravitational-wave (GW) observations offer a unique opportunity to probe the fundamental nature of compact objects. A growing body of research has focused on exploring the role of dark matter (DM) through the concept of DM-admixed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-18 Rafael M. Santos , Rafael C. Nunes , Jaziel G. Coelho , Jose C. N. de Araujo

Dark matter (DM) self-interactions have been proposed to solve problems on small length scales within the standard cold DM cosmology. Here, we investigate the effects of DM self-interactions in merging systems of galaxies and galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Moritz S. Fischer , Marcus Brüggen , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg , Klaus Dolag , Antonio Ragagnin , Andrew Robertson

Diverse astrophysical observations suggest the existence of cold dark matter that interacts only gravitationally with radiation and ordinary baryonic matter. Any nonzero coupling between dark matter and baryons would provide a significant…

If all or a fraction of the dark matter (DM) were coupled to a bath of dark radiation (DR) in the early Universe we expect the combined DM-DR system to give rise to acoustic oscillations of the dark matter until it decouples from the DR.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-26 Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Roland de Putter , Alvise Raccanelli , Kris Sigurdson

Considering possible solutions to the $S_8$ tension between the Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurement and low-redshift probes, we extended the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model by including decay of dark matter (DDM).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Hideki Tanimura , Marian Douspis , Nabila Aghanim , Joseph Kuruvilla

Here we briefly review possible indirect effects of dark matter (DM) of the Universe. It includes effects in cosmic rays (CR): first of all, the positron excess at $\sim$ 500 GeV and possible electron-positron excess at 1-1.5 TeV. We tell…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-12 K. M. Belotsky , E. A. Esipova , A. Kh. Kamaletdinov , E. S. Shlepkina , M. L. Solovyov

Gravitational weak lensing by dark matter halos leads to a measurable imprint in the shear correlation function of galaxies. Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), composed of ultralight axion-like particles of mass $m\sim 10^{-22}\text{ eV}$, suppresses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-29 Mona Dentler , David J. E. Marsh , Renée Hložek , Alex Laguë , Keir K. Rogers , Daniel Grin

Dark matter (DM) coupled to light mediators has been invoked to resolve the putative discrepancies between collisionless cold DM and galactic structure observations. However, $\gamma$-ray searches and the CMB strongly constrain such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-27 Iason Baldes , Marco Cirelli , Paolo Panci , Kalliopi Petraki , Filippo Sala , Marco Taoso

Dark matter admixed neutron stars (DANSs) serve as a specific astrophysical laboratory for probing the features of dark matter (DM) and have emerged as a promising candidate for interpreting recent astrophysical observations (e.g., by NICER…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-30 Jing Fu Hu , Hang Lu , Bao Yuan Sun

We investigate the cosmological effects of a neutrino interaction with cold dark matter. We postulate a neutrino that interacts with a ``neutrino interacting dark matter'' (NIDM) particle with an elastic-scattering cross section that either…

We present new observational constraints on the elastic scattering of dark matter with electrons for dark matter masses between 10 keV and 1 TeV. We consider scenarios in which the momentum-transfer cross section has a power-law dependence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 David Nguyen , Dimple Sarnaaik , Kimberly K. Boddy , Ethan O. Nadler , Vera Gluscevic

This article questions the common assumption of cold dark matter (DM) by exploring the possibility of a non-zero equation of state (EoS) without relying on any parametric approach. In standard cosmological analyses, DM is typically modeled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Mazaharul Abedin , Luis A. Escamilla , Supriya Pan , Eleonora Di Valentino , Weiqiang Yang

We consider the hypothesis that dark energy and dark matter are the two faces of a single dark component, a unified dark matter (UDM) that we assume can be modeled by the affine equation of state (EoS) $P= p_0 +\alpha \rho$, resulting in an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Amedeo Balbi , Marco Bruni , Claudia Quercellini