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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…

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We study dark matter-helium scattering in the early Universe and its impact on constraints from cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy measurements. We describe possible theoretical frameworks for dark matter-nucleon interactions via…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-09 Kimberly K. Boddy , Gordan Krnjaic , Stacie Moltner

We explore an extension of the standard $\Lambda$CDM model by including an interaction between neutrinos and dark matter, and making use of the ground based telescope data of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from the Atacama Cosmology…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-07 Philippe Brax , Carsten van de Bruck , Eleonora Di Valentino , William Giarè , Sebastian Trojanowski

We forecast constraints on dark matter (DM) scattering with baryons in the early Universe with upcoming and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments, for DM particle masses down to 15 keV. In terms of the upper limit on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Zack Li , Vera Gluscevic , Kimberly K. Boddy , Mathew S. Madhavacheril

We present and compare several cosmological constraints on the cross section for elastic scattering between dark matter (DM) and baryons, for cross sections with a range of power-law dependences on the DM-baryon relative velocity $v$,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Tracy R. Slatyer , Chih-Liang Wu

We study the cosmological signatures of new light relics that are collisionless like standard neutrinos or are strongly interacting. We provide a simple and succinct rephrasing of their physical effects in the cosmic microwave background,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Murali M. Saravanan , Thejs Brinckmann , Marilena Loverde , Zachary J. Weiner

We present power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy in temperature and polarization, measured from the Data Release 6 maps made from Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) data. These cover 19,000 deg$^2$ of sky in bands…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Thibaut Louis , Adrien La Posta , Zachary Atkins , Hidde T. Jense , Irene Abril-Cabezas , Graeme E. Addison , Peter A. R. Ade , Simone Aiola , Tommy Alford , David Alonso , Mandana Amiri , Rui An , Jason E. Austermann , Eleonora Barbavara , Nicholas Battaglia , Elia Stefano Battistelli , James A. Beall , Rachel Bean , Ali Beheshti , Benjamin Beringue , Tanay Bhandarkar , Emily Biermann , Boris Bolliet , J Richard Bond , Erminia Calabrese , Valentina Capalbo , Felipe Carrero , Shi-Fan Chen , Grace Chesmore , Hsiao-mei Cho , Steve K. Choi , Susan E. Clark , Nicholas F. Cothard , Kevin Coughlin , William Coulton , Devin Crichton , Kevin T. Crowley , Omar Darwish , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Rolando Dunner , Carmen Embil Villagra , Max Fankhanel , Gerrit S. Farren , Simone Ferraro , Allen Foster , Rodrigo Freundt , Brittany Fuzia , Patricio A. Gallardo , Xavier Garrido , Martina Gerbino , Serena Giardiello , Ajay Gill , Jahmour Givans , Vera Gluscevic , Samuel Goldstein , Joseph E. Golec , Yulin Gong , Yilun Guan , Mark Halpern , Ian Harrison , Matthew Hasselfield , Erin Healy , Shawn Henderson , Brandon Hensley , Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , J. Colin Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hložek , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , John Hood , Erika Hornecker , Zachary B. Huber , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Margaret Ikape , Kent Irwin , Giovanni Isopi , Neha Joshi , Ben Keller , Joshua Kim , Kenda Knowles , Brian J. Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Darby Kramer , Aleksandra Kusiak , Alex Lague , Victoria Lakey , Eunseong Lee , Yaqiong Li , Zack Li , Michele Limon , Martine Lokken , Marius Lungu , Niall MacCrann , Amanda MacInnis , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Diego Maldonado , Felipe Maldonado , Maya Mallaby-Kay , Gabriela A. Marques , Joshiwa van Marrewijk , Fiona McCarthy , Jeff McMahon , Yogesh Mehta , Felipe Menanteau , Kavilan Moodley , Thomas W. Morris , Tony Mroczkowski , Sigurd Naess , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Simran K. Nerval , Laura Newburgh , Andrina Nicola , Michael D. Niemack , Michael R. Nolta , John Orlowski-Scherer , Luca Pagano , Lyman A. Page , Shivam Pandey , Bruce Partridge , Karen Perez Sarmiento , Heather Prince , Roberto Puddu , Frank J. Qu , Damien C. Ragavan , Bernardita Ried Guachalla , Keir K. Rogers , Felipe Rojas , Tai Sakuma , Emmanuel Schaan , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Neelima Sehgal , Shabbir Shaikh , Blake D. Sherwin , Carlos Sierra , Jon Sievers , Cristóbal Sifón , Sara Simon , Rita Sonka , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Emilie Storer , Kristen Surrao , Eric R. Switzer , Niklas Tampier , Robert Thornton , Hy Trac , Carole Tucker , Joel Ullom , Leila R. Vale , Alexander Van Engelen , Jeff Van Lanen , Cristian Vargas , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Kasey Wagoner , Yuhan Wang , Lukas Wenzl , Edward J. Wollack , Kaiwen Zheng

We derive new limits on the elastic scattering cross-section between baryons and dark matter using Cosmic Microwave Background data from the Planck satellite and measurements of the Lyman-alpha forest flux power spectrum from the Sloan…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Weishuang Linda Xu , Cora Dvorkin , Andrew Chael

We present a joint analysis of the CMB lensing power spectra measured from the Data Release 6 of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and Planck PR4, cross-correlations between the ACT and Planck lensing reconstruction and galaxy clustering from…

We study scatter-like interactions between neutrinos and dark matter in light of different combinations of temperature, polarization and lensing data released by three independent CMB experiments - the Planck satellite, the Atacama…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-15 William Giarè , Adrià Gómez-Valent , Eleonora Di Valentino , Carsten van de Bruck

We investigate a cosmological model in which a fraction of the dark matter is atomic dark matter (ADM). This ADM consists of dark versions of the electron and of the proton, interacting with each other and with dark photons just as their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Ellie Hughes , Fei Ge , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Lloyd Knox , Srinivasan Raghunathan

We study the effect on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy and large scale structure (LSS) power spectrum of a scattering interaction between cold dark matter and baryons. This scattering alters the CMB anisotropy and LSS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xuelei Chen , Steen Hannestad , Robert J. Scherrer

We present a new study on the elastic scattering cross section of dark matter (DM) and neutrinos using the latest cosmological data from Planck and large-scale structure experiments. We find that the strongest constraints are set by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-13 Ryan J. Wilkinson , Celine Boehm , Julien Lesgourgues

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 elastic scattering between dark matter particles and radiation represents an attractive possibility to solve a number of discrepancies between observations and standard cold dark matter predictions, as the induced collisional damping…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Miguel Escudero , Laura Lopez-Honorez , Olga Mena , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Pablo Villanueva-Domingo

We update a previous investigation of cosmological effects of a non-standard interaction between neutrinos and dark matter. Parameterizing the elastic-scattering cross section between the two species as a function of the temperature of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-04 P. Serra , F. Zalamea , A. Cooray , G. Mangano , A. Melchiorri

It has been suggested that cold dark matter (CDM) has difficulties in explaining tentative evidence for noncuspy halo profiles in small galaxies, and the low velocity dispersions observed in the largest Milky Way satellites ("too big to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-27 James M. Cline , Zuowei Liu , Guy D. Moore , Wei Xue

We employ the Planck 2013 CMB temperature anisotropy and lensing data, and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data to constrain a phenomenological $w$CDM model, where dark matter and dark energy interact. We assume time-dependent equation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Jussi Valiviita , Elina Palmgren

The nature of dark matter is one of the most thrilling riddles for both cosmology and particle physics nowadays. While in the typical models the dark sector is composed only by weakly interacting massive particles, an arguably more natural…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-26 Urbano Franca , Roberto A. Lineros , Joaquim Palacio , Sergio Pastor

We present the cosmological constraints on the cross section of baryon-dark matter interactions for the dark matter mass below the MeV scale from the Planck CMB (cosmic microwave background) and SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Junpei Ooba , Horoyuki Tashiro , Kenji Kadota