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Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) has been proposed to address small-scale challenges faced by the cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm, such as the diverse density profiles observed in dwarf galaxies. In this study, we analyze the kinematics…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Shin'ichiro Ando , Kohei Hayashi , Shunichi Horigome , Masahiro Ibe , Satoshi Shirai

Motivated by the collisionless cold dark matter small scale structure problem, we propose an asymmetric dark matter model where dark matter particle interact with each other via a massive dark gauge boson. This model easily avoid the strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-31 Zien Chen , Kairui Ye , Mengchao Zhang

In two-component self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models with inter-species interactions, mass segregation arises naturally from collisional relaxation, enhancing central densities and gravothermal evolution. We demonstrate that models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Daneng Yang , Yi-Zhong Fan , Siyuan Hou , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai

The satellite galaxy Crater II of the Milky Way is extremely cold and exceptionally diffuse. These unusual properties are challenging to understand in the standard model of cold dark matter. We investigate the formation of Crater II in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-06 Xingyu Zhang , Hai-Bo Yu , Daneng Yang , Haipeng An

The core-cusp problem remains as a challenging discrepancy between observations and simulations in the standard $\Lambda$CDM model for the formation of galaxies. The problem is that $\Lambda$CDM simulations predict a steep power-law mass…

The existence of dark matter particles that carry phenomenologically relevant self-interaction cross sections mediated by light dark sector states is considered to be severely constrained through a combination of experimental and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-08 Nicolás Bernal , Xiaoyong Chu , Suchita Kulkarni , Josef Pradler

A dark scalar mediator can easily realize the self-interacting dark matter scenario and satisfy the constraint of the relic density of the dark matter. When the hidden sector is highly decoupled from the visible sector, the gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-04 Wenyu Wang , Wu-Long Xu , Jin Min Yang

Self-Interacting Dark Matter (SIDM) has long been proposed as a solution to small scale problems posed by standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM). We use numerical simulations to study the effect of dark matter interactions on the morphology of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-15 Lucas F. Secco , Amanda Farah , Bhuvnesh Jain , Susmita Adhikari , Arka Banerjee , Neal Dalal

We study self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) scenarios, where the $s$-wave self-scattering cross section almost saturates the Unitarity bound. Such self-scattering cross sections are singly parameterized by the dark matter mass, and are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-11 Ayuki Kamada , Hee Jung Kim , Takumi Kuwahara

Dark matter self-interactions have important implications for the distributions of dark matter in the Universe, from dwarf galaxies to galaxy clusters. We present benchmark models that illustrate characteristic features of dark matter that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-25 Manoj Kaplinghat , Sean Tulin , Hai-Bo Yu

We adopt the conduction fluid approximation to model the steady-state distribution of matter around a massive black hole at the center of a weakly collisional cluster of particles. By "`weakly collisional" we mean a cluster in which the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-04 Stuart L. Shapiro , Vasileios Paschalidis

Recently, Meneghetti et al. reported an excess of small-scale gravitational lenses in galaxy clusters. We study its implications for self-interacting dark matter (SIDM), compared with standard cold dark matter (CDM). We design controlled…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-02 Daneng Yang , Hai-Bo Yu

In the Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) scenario, the dark matter is composed of an ultra-light scalar field with coherence length and wave interference on astrophysical scales. Scalar fields generically have quartic self-interactions that modify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 Christian Capanelli , Wayne Hu , Evan McDonough

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is an intriguing alternative to the standard cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm, which predicts that dark matter halos typically have large, isothermal cores. Numerical simulations have shown that dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-16 Frank C. van den Bosch , Shashank Dattathri

We consider the growth of density perturbations in the presence of self--interacting dark matter, SIDM, proposed by Carlson, Machacek and Hall (1992). We determine the range of values for the coupling constant $\lambda$ and the particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Andrew A. de Laix , Robert J. Scherrer , Robert K. Schaefer

Supermassive black hole binary mergers serve as prominent sources of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB), detectable by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs). If dark matter-induced friction is present in the vicinity of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-29 Pratick Sarkar

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is a well-motivated extension of cold dark matter that can modify halo structure on galactic and group scales while remaining consistent with large-scale structure. However, practical SIDM work often…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-09 Nalin Dhiman

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) has gathered growing attention as a solution to the small scale problems of the collisionless cold dark matter (DM). We investigate the SIDM using stellar kinematics of 23 ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Kohei Hayashi , Masahiro Ibe , Shin Kobayashi , Yuhei Nakayama , Satoshi Shirai

This work studies the self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) scenario in the general NMSSM and beyond, where the dark matter is a Majorana fermion and the force mediator is a scalar boson. An improved analytical expression for the dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-10 Jinmian Li , Junle Pei , Cong Zhang