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We revisit cosmological neutrino mass bounds when a fraction of dark matter is allowed to decay to massless dark radiation. By compensating the late-time increase in the matter density induced by neutrinos becoming non-relativistic,…

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Due to their extreme density and low temperature, neutron stars (NS) are efficient probes to unveil interactions between standard model and dark matter (DM) particles. From elastic scatterings on NS material, DM can get gravitationally…

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We constrain the neutrino-dark matter cross section using properties of the dark matter density profiles of Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies. The constraint arises from core-collapse supernova neutrinos scattering on dark matter as a…

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The presence of Dark matter (DM) within a neutron star (NS) can substantially influence the macroscopic properties. It is commonly assumed that the pressure inside an NS is isotropic, but in reality, pressure is locally anisotropic. This…

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Here we briefly review possible indirect effects of dark matter (DM) of the Universe. It includes effects in cosmic rays (CR): first of all, the positron excess at $\sim$ 500 GeV and possible electron-positron excess at 1-1.5 TeV. We tell…

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We investigate signatures of neutrino scattering in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and matter power spectra, and the extent to which present cosmological data can distinguish between a free streaming or tightly coupled fluid of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicole F. Bell , Elena Pierpaoli , Kris Sigurdson

Models of stepped dark radiation have recently been found to have an important impact on the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background, aiding in easing the Hubble tension. In this work, we study models with a sector of dark radiation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-26 Itamar J. Allali , Daniel Aloni , Nils Schöneberg

Dark matter (DM) with self-interactions is a promising solution for the small-scale problems of the standard cosmological model. Here we perform the first cosmological simulation of frequent DM self-interactions, corresponding to…

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We discuss the neutrino constraints from solar and terrestrial dark matter (DM) annihilations in the inelastic dark matter (iDM) scenario after the recent CDMS II results. To reconcile the DAMA/LIBRA data with constraints from all other…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Jing Shu , Peng-fei Yin , Shou-hua Zhu

We investigate the presence of extra relativistic degrees of freedom in the early Universe, contributing to the effective number of neutrinos $N_\text{eff}$, as $\Delta N_\text{eff}\equiv N_\text{eff}-3.044\geq 0$, in light of the recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 Itamar J. Allali , Alessio Notari , Fabrizio Rompineve

To explore whether there is new physics going beyond the standard cosmological model or not, we constrain seven cosmological models by combining the latest and largest Pantheon Type Ia supernovae sample with the data combination of baryonic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Deng Wang

Supernova cooling has long been used to constrain physics beyond the Standard Model, typically involving new mediators or dark matter (DM) particles that couple to nucleons or electrons. In this work, we show that the large density of…

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Neutrinos and dark matter (DM) are two of the least understood components of the Universe, yet both play crucial roles in cosmic evolution. Clues about their fundamental properties may emerge from discrepancies in cosmological measurements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Lei Zu , William Giarè , Chi Zhang , Eleonora Di Valentino , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Sebastian Trojanowski

Dark radiation, parameterized in terms of $N_{\rm eff}$, has been considered many times in the literature as a possible remedy in alleviating the Hubble constant ($H_0$) tension. We review here the effect of such an extra dark radiation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Stefano Gariazzo , Olga Mena

In this paper we explore possible extensions of Interacting Dark Energy cosmologies, where Dark Energy and Dark Matter interact non-gravitationally with one another. In particular, we focus on the neutrino sector, analyzing the effect of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Weiqiang Yang , Eleonora Di Valentino , Olga Mena , Supriya Pan , Rafael C. Nunes

After their generation, cosmological backgrounds of gravitational waves propagate nearly freely but for the expansion of the Universe and the anisotropic stress of free-streaming particles. Primordial signals -- both that from inflation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Marilena Loverde , Zachary J. Weiner

We investigate the impacts of dark energy on constraining massive (active/sterile) neutrinos in interacting dark energy (IDE) models by using the current observations. We employ two typical IDE models, the interacting $w$ cold dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-14 Lu Feng , Dong-Ze He , Hai-Li Li , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We study how present data probe standard and non-standard properties of neutrinos and the possible existence of new light particles, freely-streaming or interacting, among themselves or with neutrinos. Our results include: sum m_nu < 0.40…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Marco Cirelli , Alessandro Strumia

We investigate the effects of dark matter (DM) on neutron star (NS) properties using the neutron decay anomaly model within the relativistic mean-field (RMF) framework. Three nucleonic models (HCD0-HCD2) are developed, satisfying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-15 H. C. Das , G. F. Burgio

The Phenomenologically Emergent Dark Energy model, a dark energy model with the same number of free parameters as the flat $\Lambda$CDM, has been proposed as a working example of a minimal model which can avoid the current cosmological…

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