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The decay and annihilation cross sections of dark matter particles may depend on the value of a chameleonic scalar field that both evolves cosmologically and takes different values depending on the local matter density. This possibility…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 Kimberly K. Boddy , Sean M. Carroll , Mark Trodden

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

We explore interacting dark matter (DM) models that allow DM and baryons to scatter off of each other with a cross section that scales with relative particle velocity. Using the effective field theory of large-scale structure, we perform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Adam He , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Rui An , Trey Driskell , Vera Gluscevic

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-02 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Doojin Kim , Deepak Sathyan , Kuver Sinha , Yongchao Zhang

In this letter, we report precise and robust observational constraints on dark matter-dark energy scattering cross section, using the latest data from cosmic microwave background (CMB) Planck temperature and polarization, baryon acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-06 Suresh Kumar , Rafael C. Nunes

The $\Lambda$CDM model, while successful on large cosmological scales, faces challenges on small scales. A promising solution posits that dark matter (DM) exhibits strong self-interaction, enhanced through the narrow resonance or Sommerfeld…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-21 Shao-Song Tang , Murat Abdughani

In this article, we have done a thorough investigation of the possible effects of interaction between dark matter (DM) and neutrinos on reionization history. We have constrained the interaction strength using 21 cm Cosmology and found out…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-07 Antara Dey , Arnab Paul , Supratik Pal

In this study, we will look at an interacting dark energy model. In the framework of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) space-time, we have made the hypothesis of an interacting scheme between two fields (dark matter (DM) and dark energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-27 J. K. Singh , Ritika Nagpal

Direct detection experiments search for the interactions of Dark Matter (DM) particles with nuclei in terrestrial detectors. But if these interactions are sufficiently strong, DM particles may scatter in the Earth, affecting their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-13 Bradley J. Kavanagh , Riccardo Catena , Chris Kouvaris

Numerous observations on astrophysical and cosmological scales can be interpreted to mean that, in addition to the familiar kind of matter well described by the standard model of elementary particle physics, there exists Dark Matter (DM).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-05 Gaurav Goswami

We propose a novel and feasible method to detect dark matter (DM) electron interaction via pulsating white dwarfs (WDs) in the central region of globular clusters. Annihilation of the DM particles captured by those WDs can provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-30 Jia-Shu Niu , Weikai Zong , Hui-Fang Xue

Direct detection experiments aimed at uncovering the elusive nature of dark matter (DM) have made significant progress in probing ever lower cross-sections for DM-nucleon interactions. At the same time, an upper limit in the cross-section…

The extragalactic $\gamma$-ray background and its spatial anisotropy could potentially contain a signature of dark matter (DM) annihilation or particle decay. Astrophysical foregrounds, such as blazars and star-forming galaxies (SFGs),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Chang Feng , Asantha Cooray , Brian Keating

We probe dark matter-electron scattering using high-energy neutrino observations from the Sun. Dark matter (DM) interacting with electrons can get captured inside the Sun. These captured DM may annihilate to produce different Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-21 Tarak Nath Maity , Akash Kumar Saha , Sagnik Mondal , Ranjan Laha

In this paper, we explore the impact of Dark Matter-photon interactions on the CMB angular power spectrum. Using the one-year data release of the Planck satellite, we derive an upper bound on the Dark Matter-photon elastic scattering cross…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-01 Ryan J. Wilkinson , Julien Lesgourgues , Celine Boehm

We consider the generic possibility that the Universe's energy budget includes some form of relativistic or semi-relativistic dark radiation (DR) with non-gravitational interactions with Standard Model (SM) particles. Such dark radiation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Yanou Cui , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler

The self-interacting dark matter can affect various cosmological processes. Such interactions can be number conserving (\emph{e.g.} $2 \rightarrow 2$) or number violating (\emph{e.g.} $3 \rightarrow 2,\,4 \rightarrow 2$ etc.). The latter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-14 Rupa Basu , Debasish Majumdar , Ashadul Halder , Shibaji Banerjee

In the leading paradigm of modern cosmology, about 80% of our Universe's matter content is in the form of hypothetical, as yet undetected particles. These do not emit or absorb radiation at any observable wavelengths, and therefore…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-20 Riccardo Catena , Timon Emken , Nicola A. Spaldin , Walter Tarantino

We consider effective operators describing Dark Matter (DM) interactions with Standard Model fermions. In the non-relativistic limit of the DM field, the operators can be organized according to their mass dimension and their velocity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-27 Andrea De Simone , Alexander Monin , Andrea Thamm , Alfredo Urbano

Dark Matter (DM) particles with sufficiently large cross sections may scatter as they travel through Earth's bulk. The corresponding changes in the DM flux give rise to a characteristic daily modulation signal in detectors sensitive to…