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We investigate the dynamics of a multifield dark energy model, which arises from certain rapid-turning and inspiraling trajectories in field space. We find the speed of sound $c_s$ of the dark energy perturbations around the background and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-11 Lilia Anguelova , John Dumancic , Richard Gass , L. C. R. Wijewardhana

From observations at low and high redshifts, it is well known that the bulk of dark matter (DM) has to be stable or at least very long-lived. However, the possibility that a small fraction of DM is unstable or that all DM decays with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Jozef Bucko , Sambit K. Giri , Aurel Schneider

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

A fundamental prediction of the cold dark matter (CDM) model of structure formation is the existence of a vast population of dark matter haloes extending to subsolar masses. By contrast, other dark matter models, such as a warm thermal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-10 Qiuhan He , Andrew Robertson , James Nightingale , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk , Richard Massey , Aristeidis Amvrosiadis , Ran Li , Xiaoyue Cao , Amy Etherington

The Standard Model of cosmology, $\Lambda$CDM, while enormously successful, is currently unable to account for several cosmological anomalies the most prominent of which are in the measurements of the Hubble parameter and $S_8$.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-14 Amin Aboubrahim , Pran Nath

The $\Lambda$CDM model has successfully explained a wide range of cosmological observations, but is increasingly challenged by the emergence of cosmological tensions, particularly the Hubble Tension $H_0$ and the $S_8$ tension. The Hubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Miguel A. Sabogal , Emanuelly Silva , Rafael C. Nunes , Suresh Kumar , Eleonora Di Valentino

The Hubble constant $H_0$ is one of the important cosmological parameters measuring the expansion rate of our universe at present moment. Over the last couple of years, $H_0$ has created an enormous amount of debates interests in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-29 Supriya Pan , Weiqiang Yang

We investigate a cosmological model inspired by hybrid inflation, where two scalar fields representing dark energy (DE) and dark matter (DM) interact through a coupling that is proportional to the DE scalar field $1/\phi$. The strength of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-19 Elsa M. Teixeira , Gaspard Poulot , Carsten van de Bruck , Eleonora Di Valentino , Vivian Poulin

We examine a modified late-Universe dynamics where dark energy decays into dark matter, within the framework of metric $f(R)$-gravity in the Jordan frame. After a detailed analysis of the modified $\Lambda \text{CDM}$ model, we introduce a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-19 Giovanni Montani , Mariaveronica De Angelis , Maria Giovanna Dainotti

We propose a ultraviolet complete theory for cold dark matter(CDM) and sterile neutrino that can accommodate both cosmological data and neutrino oscillation experiments at $1\sigma$ level. A new $U(1)_X$ dark gauge symmetry is introduced,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-29 P. Ko , Yong Tang

We examine interactions between dark matter and dark energy in light of the latest cosmological observations, focusing on a specific model with coupling proportional to the dark energy density. Our data includes Cosmic Microwave Background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-10 Eleonora Di Valentino , Alessandro Melchiorri , Olga Mena , Sunny Vagnozzi

The standard paradigm of collisionless cold dark matter is in tension with measurements on large scales. In particular, the best fit values of the Hubble rate $H_0$ and the matter density perturbation $\sigma_8$ inferred from the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-10 Zackaria Chacko , Yanou Cui , Sungwoo Hong , Takemichi Okui , Yuhsin Tsai

We consider theories where dark matter is composed of a thermal relic of weak scale mass, whose couplings to the Standard Model (SM) are however too small to give rise to the observed abundance. Instead, the abundance is set by annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-18 Zackaria Chacko , Yanou Cui , Sungwoo Hong , Takemichi Okui

Despite overwhelming observational evidence for dark matter, we still have no evidence of direct detection. Consequently, our knowledge about dark matter is limited, for example, we do not know if dark matter is a stable particle or if it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Earl Lester , Krzysztof Bolejko

We investigate a class of interacting dark energy and dark matter (DM) models, where dark energy is modeled as a $k$-essence scalar field with an inverse-square potential. Two general forms of interaction are considered: one proportional to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Saddam Hussain , Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu

In this work we consider a scenario where the dark energy is a dynamical fluid whose energy density can be transferred to the dark matter via a coupling function proportional to the energy density of the dark energy. In particular, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-28 Matteo Lucca

We study a dark matter production mechanism based on decays of a messenger WIMP-like state into a pair of dark matter particles that are self-interacting via exchange of a light mediator. Its distinctive thermal history allows the mediator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-14 Andrzej Hryczuk , Krzysztof Jodłowski

Observations of the cosmic microwave backgroundradiation are described to remarkable accuracy by the six-parameterLambda CDM cosmology. However, the key ingredients of this model, namely dark matter, dark energy and cosmic inflation are not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 George Efstathiou

We propose a revised cosmological scenario that extends the $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM) framework by incorporating metric $f(R)$ gravity in the Jordan frame. In this model, the dark energy component arises from a non-minimally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 Giovanni Montani , Luis A. Escamilla , Nakia Carlevaro , Eleonora Di Valentino

Models of interacting dark radiation have been shown to alleviate the Hubble tension. Extensions incorporating a coupling between dark matter and dark radiation (DM-DR) have been proposed as combined solutions to both the Hubble and $S_8$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-13 Hengameh Bagherian , Melissa Joseph , Martin Schmaltz , Eashwar N. Sivarajan