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In this paper, we investigate the possibility of testing the weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM) models by applying the simplest phenomenological model which introduces an interaction term between dark energy (DE)…

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In this paper, we introduce a new interacting mechanism within the dark sector, encompassing both dark energy and dark matter, while grounding our analysis in the familiar framework of the $\mathrm{\Lambda CDM}$ model augmented by baryons…

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The cosmological model of dark energy interacting with cold dark matter without coupling to the baryonic matter, is studied in the background of both classical Einstein and loop quantum cosmology. We consider two types of interacting…

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Coupled dark matter-dark energy scenarios are modeled via a dimensionless parameter $\xi$, which controls the strength of their interaction. While this coupling is commonly assumed to be constant, there is no underlying physical law or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Weiqiang Yang , Olga Mena , Supriya Pan , Eleonora Di Valentino

We obtain the first cosmological constraints on interactions between dark matter and protons within the formalism of nonrelativistic effective field theory developed for direct detection. For each interaction operator in the effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-06 Kimberly K. Boddy , Vera Gluscevic

Interacting Dark Energy and Dark Matter is used to go beyond the standard cosmology. We base our arguments on Planck data and conclude that an interaction is compatible with the observations and can provide a strong argument towards…

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Models with dark energy decaying into dark matter have been proposed to solve the coincidence problem in cosmology. We study the effect of such coupling in the matter power spectrum. Due to the interaction, the growth of matter density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Olivares , F. Atrio-Barandela , D. Pavon

We consider a non-linear interaction between the dark matter and dark energy components of the universe. In particular, within the FLRW geometry, where dark matter is described by a dust fluid and dark energy by an ideal gas with a constant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Marcel van der Westhuizen , David Figueruelo , Rethabile Thubisi , Shambel Sahlu , Amare Abebe , Andronikos Paliathanasis

We present a comprehensive analysis of the interactions of neutrinos with the dark sector within the simplified model framework. We first derive the exact analytic formulas for the differential scattering cross sections of neutrinos with…

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We perform a Bayesian model selection analysis for interacting scenarios of dark matter and modified holographic Ricci dark energy (MHRDE) with linear interacting terms. We use a combination of some of the latest cosmological data such as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Antonella Cid , Carlos Rodriguez-Benites , Mauricio Cataldo , Gonzalo Casanova

The recent preference for a dynamical dark energy (DE) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument seems to call for interactions between DE and dark matter (DM), either from direct DE-DM interaction or indirect interaction induced by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zhen-Hong Lyu , Rong-Gen Cai , Shao-Jiang Wang , Xiang-Xi Zeng

We explore an interacting dark matter (DM)-dark energy (DE) framework that naturally yields an effective dynamical DE equation of state crossing the phantom barrier at early times, as indicated by recent DESI data, while also accounting for…

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We consider a generic cosmological model which allows for non-gravitational direct couplings between dark matter and dark energy. The distinguishing cosmological features of these couplings can be probed by current cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Carsten van de Bruck , Jurgen Mifsud

The description of dark matter as a pressure-less fluid and of dark energy as a cosmological constant, both minimally coupled to gravity, constitutes the basis of the concordance $\Lambda\text{CDM}$ model. However, the concordance model is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-27 Amin Aboubrahim , Pran Nath

Modern Cosmology offers us a great understanding of the universe with striking precision, made possible by the modern technologies of the newest generations of telescopes. The standard cosmological model, however, is not absent of…

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In this paper, we investigate the observational constraints on the scenario of vacuum energy interacting with cold dark matter. We consider eight typical interaction forms in such an interacting vacuum energy scenario. The observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Hai-Li Li , Lu Feng , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

In this study, we present observational constraints on a class of phenomenological interacting dark energy (IDE) models that admit analytical solutions for the Hubble parameter $H(z)$. We consider a set of five linear and three non-linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 David Figueruelo , Marcel van der Westhuizen , Amare Abebe , Eleonora Di Valentino

We present improved constraints on an interacting vacuum model using updated astronomical observations including the first data release from Planck. We consider a model with one dimensionless parameter, $\alpha$, describing the interaction…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-09 Yuting Wang , David Wands , Gong-Bo Zhao , Lixin Xu

The abundance of the most massive objects in the Universe at different epochs is a very sensitive probe of the cosmic background evolution and of the growth history of density perturbations, and could provide a powerful tool to distinguish…

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