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Recent observations in galaxies and clusters indicate dark matter density profiles exhibit core-like structures which contradict to the numerical simulation results of collisionless cold dark matter. The idea of self-interacting cold dark…

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The small scale observations indicate that the dark matter may be self-interacting. In this paper, we calculate the shear ($\eta$) and bulk viscosity ($\zeta$) of Self Interacting Dark Matter (SIDM) fluid, in kinetic theory formalism.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-27 Arvind Kumar Mishra

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is an alternative to the standard collisionless cold dark matter model (CDM), allowing for interactions between the dark matter particles through the introduction of a self-scattering cross-section.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Elizabeth Johana Gonzalez , Agustín Rodriguez-Medrano , Luis Alberto Pereyra , Diego García Lambas

Self-Interacting Dark Matter is an attractive alternative to the Cold Dark Matter paradigm only if it is able to substantially reduce the central densities of dwarf-size haloes while keeping the densities and shapes of cluster-size haloes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-26 Jesus Zavala , Mark Vogelsberger , Matthew G. Walker

We study the impact of self-interactions on the structure and evolution of scalar field dark matter (SFDM) halos. Using three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii-Poisson simulations of multiple soliton mergers, we explore both repulsive and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Jessica N. López-Sánchez , Erick Munive-Villa , Tanja Rindler-Daller

We explore for the first time the effect of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) on the dark matter (DM) and baryonic distribution in massive galaxies formed in hydrodynamical cosmological simulations, including explicit baryonic physics…

Measurements of the accelerations of stars enabled by time-series extreme-precision spectroscopic observations, from pulsar timing, and from eclipsing binary stars in the Solar Neighborhood offer insights into the mass distribution of the…

The nature of dark matter remains unknown, motivating the study of fuzzy/wave dark matter (FDM/$\psi$DM) and self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) as alternative frameworks to address small-scale discrepancies in halo profiles inferred from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Lei Lei , Yi-Ying Wang , Qiao Li , Jiang Dong , Ze-Fan Wang , Wei-Long Lin , Yi-Ping Shu , Xiao-Yue Cao , Da-Neng Yang , Yi-Zhong Fan

Gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters has emerged as a powerful tool to probe the standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM) paradigm of structure formation in the Universe. Despite the remarkable explanatory power of CDM on large scales, tensions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-12 Isaque Dutra , Priyamvada Natarajan , Daniel Gilman

We present SIDM Concerto: $14$ cosmological zoom-in simulations in cold dark matter (CDM) and self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models based on the Symphony and Milky Way-est suites. SIDM Concerto includes one Large Magellanic Cloud-…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Ethan O. Nadler , Demao Kong , Daneng Yang , Hai-Bo Yu

We use hydrodynamical cosmological simulations to test the differences between cold and self-interacting dark matter models (CDM and SIDM) in the mass range of massive galaxies ($10^{12}M_{\odot}h^{-1}<M<10^{13.5}M_{\odot}h^{-1}$). We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Claudio Mastromarino , Giulia Despali , Lauro Moscardini , Andrew Robertson , Massimo Meneghetti , Matteo Maturi

Self-Interacting Dark Matter (SIDM) represents a compelling alternative to collisionless dark matter, with diverse phenomenological signals from dwarf galaxy to galaxy cluster scales. We present new constraints on the SIDM cross section…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Jackson H. O'Donnell , Tesla E. Jeltema , M. Grant Roberts , James Nightingale , Abigail Flowers , Dhruv Aldas

Cosmological simulations of the $\Lambda$CDM model suggest that the dark matter halos of dwarf galaxies are denser in their center than what observational data of such galaxies imply. In this letter, we propose a novel solution to this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-18 Xiaoyong Chu , Camilo Garcia-Cely

We report on a new behavior found in numerical simulations of spherically symmetric gravitational collapse in self-gravitating SU(2) sigma models at intermediate gravitational coupling constants: The critical solution (between black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Thornburg , Ch. Lechner , M. Purrer , P. C. Aichelburg , S. Husa

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

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM), especially bosonic, has been considered a promising candidate to replace cold dark matter (CDM) as it resolves some of the problems associated with CDM. Here, we rule out the possibility that dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Zachary Slepian , Jeremy Goodman

Ultralight dark matter (ULDM) is an interesting alternative to the cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm. Due to the extremely low mass of the constituent particle ($\sim 10^{-22}$ eV), ULDM can exhibit quantum effects up to kiloparsec scales. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-18 Emily Kendall , Mateja Gosenca , Richard Easther

We propose a scalar-mediated Self-Interacting Dark Matter (SIDM) model to address small-scale structure anomalies such as the core-cusp and diversity problems. The model is composed by a leptophilic scalar mediator and a pseudo-Dirac dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-05 Zihan Wang

We perform cosmological zoom-in simulations of $19$ relaxed cluster-mass haloes with the inclusion of adiabatic gas in the cold dark matter (CDM) and self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models. These clusters are selected as dynamically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-03 Xuejian Shen , Thejs Brinckmann , David Rapetti , Mark Vogelsberger , Adam Mantz , Jesús Zavala , Steven W. Allen

Decaying dark matter (DDM) affects the evolution of cosmic structure relative to standard cold, collisionless, stable dark matter (CDM). We introduce a new semianalytic model for the effects of two-body DDM on halo structure and subhalo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 Ethan O. Nadler , Andrew J. Benson