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As one of the fundamental unknowns of our Universe, the mass of dark matter remains to be a topic of great interest. We consider the possibility of a time-variation of the dark matter mass. We study the cosmological constraints on a model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-01 Amlan Chakraborty , Anirban Das , Subinoy Das , Shiv K. Sethi

As recently pointed out in Ref. [Phys.\ Rev.\ D {\bf 96}, 8, 083502 (2017)] the evolution of the linear matter perturbations in nonadiabatic dynamical dark energy models is almost indistinguishable (quasi-degenerated) to the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Hermano Velten , Raquel Emy Fazolo , Rodrigo von Marttens , Syrios Gomes

In this paper we update the constraints on the simple decaying cold dark matter (DCDM) model with dark radiation (DR) as decay product. We consider two different regimes of the lifetime, i.e. short-lived and long-lived, and use the most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-13 Andreas Nygaard , Thomas Tram , Steen Hannestad

Presently, we are facing a 3$\sigma$ tension in the most basic cosmological parameter -- the Hubble constant $H_0$. This tension arises when fitting the Lambda-cold-dark-matter model ($\Lambda$CDM) to the high-precision…

General Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Steffen Hahn , Ralf Hofmann

One of the most prominent challenges to the standard Lambda cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM) cosmology is the tension between the structure growth parameter $S_8$ constrained by the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data and the smaller one…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-04 Lu Huang , Zhiqi Huang , Huan Zhou , Zhuoyang Li

Motivated by the current status of the cosmological observations and significant tensions in the estimated values of some key parameters assuming the standard $\Lambda$CDM model, we propose a simple but radical phenomenological emergent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-14 Xiaolei Li , Arman Shafieloo

The $\Lambda$CDM model has long served as the cornerstone of modern cosmology, offering an elegant and successful framework for interpreting a wide range of cosmological observations. However, the rise of high-precision datasets has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Manish Yadav , Archana Dixit , Anirudh Pradhan , M S Barak

We revisited the decaying dark matter (DDM) model, in which one collisionless particle decays early into two collisionless particles, that are potentially dark matter particles today. The effect of DDM will be manifested in the cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-20 Ran Huo

We investigate an extension of $\Lambda$CDM in which a fraction of cold Dark Matter (DM) decays into invisible dark radiation (DR) around the radiation-matter equality epoch, together with a non-standard dark energy (DE) equation of state…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Rahul Dhyani , Purba Mukherjee , Arindam Chatterjee , Anjan A Sen

It has been recently suggested~\cite{Berezhiani:2015yta} that a subdominant fraction of dark matter decaying after recombination may alleviate tension between high-redshift (CMB anisotropy) and low-redshift (Hubble constant, cluster counts)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 A. Chudaykin , D. Gorbunov , I. Tkachev

We present an updated analysis of eleven cosmological models that may help reduce the Hubble tension, which now reaches the $6\sigma$ level when considering the latest SH0ES measurement versus recent CMB and BAO data, assuming $\Lambda$CDM.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-09 Ali Rida Khalife , Maryam Bahrami Zanjani , Silvia Galli , Sven Günther , Julien Lesgourgues , Karim Benabed

In a recent work [Phys. Rev. D 98, 043521 (2018)], we have investigated a dark matter (DM)-photon coupling model in which the DM decays into photons in the presence of dark energy (DE) with the constant equation of state (EoS) parameter.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-30 Santosh Kumar Yadav

Full suite of the present day Cosmic Microwave background (CMB) data, when combined with weak prior information on the Hubble constant and the age of the Universe, or the Large-Scale structure, provides strong indication for a non-zero…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Pogosyan , J. R. Bond , C. R. Contaldi

We analyze cosmic microwave background (CMB) data to constrain the mass and interaction strengths of thermally-produced dark matter (DM) in a self-consistent manner, simultaneously taking into account the cosmological effects of its mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-14 Rui An , Kimberly K. Boddy , Vera Gluscevic

We investigate an extension of the $\Lambda$CDM model where the dark matter (DM) is coupled to photons, inducing a nonconservation of the numbers of particles for both species, where the DM particles are allowed to dilute throughout the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-21 Suresh Kumar , Rafael C. Nunes , Santosh Kumar Yadav

Although it is well known that the bulk of dark matter (DM) has to be cold, the existence of an additional sub-dominant, hot species remains a valid possibility. In this paper we investigate the potential of the cosmic shear power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Fabian Hervas Peters , Aurel Schneider , Jozef Bucko , Sambit K. Giri , Gabriele Parimbelli

We revisit a cosmological model where dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE) follow barotropic equations of state, allowing deviations from the standard $\Lambda$CDM framework (i.e. $w_{dm} \neq 0$, $w_{de} \neq -1$), considering both flat…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Dorian Araya , Cristian Castillo , Genly Leon , Juan Magaña , Angie Barr Domínguez , Miguel A. García-Aspeitia

In the context of a spatially flat $\Lambda(t)$CDM cosmology, we investigate interacting dark energy (IDE) scenarios characterized by phenomenological interaction terms proportional to the Hubble expansion rate and the dark energy density.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 A. A. Escobal , H. A. P. Macedo , J. F. Jesus , R. C. Nunes , J. A. S. Lima

Recent cosmological data reveal tension between parameters inferred from measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), and supernovae (SN) under $\Lambda$CDM. Typical dynamical dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Tanisha Jhaveri , Tanvi Karwal , Thomas Crawford , Wayne Hu , Ali Rida Khalife , Lennart Balkenhol , Fei Ge

In this manuscript we reassess the potential of interacting dark matter-dark energy models in solving the Hubble constant tension. These models have been proposed but also questioned as possible solutions to the $H_0$ problem. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-29 Stefano Gariazzo , Eleonora Di Valentino , Olga Mena , Rafael C. Nunes