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While the LCDM framework has been incredibly successful for modern cosmology, it requires the admission of two mysterious substances as a part of the paradigm, dark energy and dark matter. Although this framework adequately explains most of…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-06-24 James Schombert

Astronomical observations from small galaxies to the largest scales in the universe can be consistently explained by the simple idea of dark matter. The nature of dark matter is however still unknown. Empirically it cannot be any of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-11-26 Paolo Gondolo

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

The nature of dark matter is one of the most fundamental questions in cosmology. Using the cosmic microwave background (CMB), type Ia supernova (SN) and DESI's new measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), we find the robust…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 Deng Wang

We present a complete analysis of the cosmological constraints on decaying dark matter. Previous analyses have used the cosmic microwave background and Type Ia supernova. We have updated them with the latest data as well as extended the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Santiago De Lope Amigo , William Man-Yin Cheung , Zhiqi Huang , Siew-Phang Ng

Stable particle dark matter may well originate during the decay of long-lived relic particles, as recently extensively examined in the cases of the axino, gravitino, and higher-dimensional Kaluza-Klein (KK) graviton. It is shown that in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Karsten Jedamzik , Martin Lemoine , Gilbert Moultaka

A computer code to simulate temporal evolution of overdensities in a one-dimensional Universe is presented for didactic purposes. The formation of large scale structures in this one-dimensional universe can be studied both in matter or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Costantino Sigismondi

The quantum model of the homogeneous, isotropic, and spatially closed universe predicts an existence of two types of collective quantum states in the universe. The states of one type characterize a gravitational field, the others describe a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. E. Kuzmichev , V. V. Kuzmichev

Under the assumption that General Relativity (GR) correctly describes the phenomenology of our Universe, astronomical observations provide compelling evidence that (1) the dynamics of cosmic structure is dominated by dark matter (DM), an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-19 A. Diaferio

We present a study of cosmological implications of generic dark matter decays. We consider two-body and many-body decaying scenarios. In the two-body case the massive particle has a possibly relativistic kick velocity and thus possesses a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Gordon Blackadder , Savvas M. Koushiappas

The suppression of cosmological structure at small scales is a key signature of dark matter (DM) produced via freeze-in in the low-mass regime. We present a comprehensive analysis of its impact, incorporating recent constraints from Milky…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-12 Francesco D'Eramo , Alessandro Lenoci , Ariane Dekker

Assuming the validity of the general relativistic description of gravitation on astrophysical and cosmological length scales, we analytically infer that the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology with Einsteinian cosmological constant, and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. V. Ahluwalia-Khalilova

The quantity and quality of cosmic structure observations have greatly accelerated in recent years. Further leaps forward will be facilitated by imminent projects, which will enable us to map the evolution of dark and baryonic matter…

Cosmic acceleration is widely believed to require either a source of negative pressure (i.e., dark energy), or a modification of gravity, which necessarily implies new degrees of freedom beyond those of Einstein gravity. In this paper we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 Lasha Berezhiani , Justin Khoury , Junpu Wang

We reexamine a dynamical dark matter model with Kaluza-Klein (KK) towers of gravitons and neutrinos fitting together in the dark dimension. We show that even though gravitational decays of neutrino KK towers have little impact in cosmology…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-12 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Ignatios Antoniadis , Dieter Lust , Karem Peñaló Castillo

We discuss the dynamics of the universe within the framework of Massive Graviton Dark Matter scenario (MGCDM) in which gravitons are geometrically treated as massive particles. In this modified gravity theory, the main effect of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-13 S. Basilakos , M. Plionis , M. E. S. Alves , J. A. S. Lima

While, to ensure successful cosmology, dark matter (DM) must kinematically decouple from the standard model plasma very early in the history of the Universe, it can remain coupled to a bath of "dark radiation" until a relatively late epoch.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-05 Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Kris Sigurdson

We consider the production of axion dark matter through the misalignment mechanism in the context of a nonstandard cosmological history involving early matter domination by a scalar field with a time-dependent decay rate. In cases where the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-24 Paola Arias , Nicolás Bernal , Jacek K. Osiński , Leszek Roszkowski

We study the origin of dark matter based on the ghost-free bigravity theory with twin matter fluids. The present cosmic acceleration can be explained by the existence of graviton mass, while dark matter is required in several cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-07 Katsuki Aoki , Kei-ichi Maeda

We consider models in which a dark-matter particle decays to a slightly less massive daughter particle and a noninteracting massless particle. The decay gives the daughter particle a small velocity kick. Self-gravitating dark-matter halos…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-28 Annika H. G. Peter , Christopher E. Moody , Marc Kamionkowski