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The Hubble horizon at matter-radiation equality ($k^{-1}_{\rm{eq}}$) and the sound horizon at the last scattering surface ($r_s(z_*)$) provides interesting consistency check for the $\Lambda$CDM model and its extensions. It is well known…

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In this manuscript we reassess the potential of interacting dark matter-dark energy models in solving the Hubble constant tension. These models have been proposed but also questioned as possible solutions to the $H_0$ problem. Here we…

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Recent DESI BAO measurements, combined with CMB data, reveal a tension within the $\Lambda$CDM model that leads to a discrepancy between cosmological and laboratory bounds on the summed neutrino mass. We show that a recoupled interacting…

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The impact of dark matter-neutrino ($\nu$DM) interactions on cosmological perturbations has regained attention, spurred by indications of non-zero couplings from high-multipole cosmic microwave background data, weak lensing, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Sebastian Trojanowski , Lei Zu

We place observational constraints on two models within a class of scenarios featuring an elastic interaction between dark energy and dark matter that only produces momentum exchange up to first order in cosmological perturbations. The…

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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

The local measurement of $H_0$ is in tension with the prediction of $\Lambda$CDM model based on the Planck data. This tension may imply that dark energy is strengthened in the late-time Universe. We employ the latest cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-25 Dong-Mei Xia , Sai Wang

We reassess the viability of a cosmological model including a fourth additional sterile neutrino species that self-interacts through a new pseudoscalar degree of freedom. We perform a series of extensive analyses fitting various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-14 Mattia Atzori Corona , Riccardo Murgia , Matteo Cadeddu , Maria Archidiacono , Stefano Gariazzo , Carlo Giunti , Steen Hannestad

Dark radiation (DR) is ubiquitous in physics beyond the Standard Model (SM), and its interactions with the SM and dark matter (DM) lead to a variety of interesting effects on cosmological observables. However, even in scenarios where DR is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Jae Hyeok Chang , Peizhi Du , Subhajit Ghosh , Soubhik Kumar

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 is fundamental to the composition, structure, and evolution of the universe. Combining the ACT's cosmic microwave background, DESI's baryon acoustic oscillations with DESY5 type Ia supernova observations, we find a $3.4\,\sigma$…

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The recent release of high-precision cosmological data, particularly the small-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements from ACT and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data from DESI, has opened a new landscape for probing the…

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Cosmological observations are becoming increasingly sensitive to the effects of light particles in the form of dark radiation (DR) at the time of recombination. The conventional observable of effective neutrino number, $N_{\rm eff}$, is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Christopher Brust , Yanou Cui , Kris Sigurdson

We perform a multiprobe analysis combining cosmic microwave background (CMB) data from Planck and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), ACT CMB lensing, and large-scale structure (LSS) measurements from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Alexander Reeves , Simone Ferraro , Andrina Nicola , Alexandre Refregier

We use observations of cosmic microwave background anisotropies, supernova luminosities and the baryon acoustic oscillation signal in the galaxy distribution to constrain the cosmological parameters in a simple interacting dark energy model…

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The interacting dark matter (IDM) scenario allows for the acceleration of the Universe without Dark Energy. We constrain the IDM model by using the newly revised observational data including $H(z)$ data and Union2 SNe Ia via the Markov…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Shuo Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu , Nan Liang

We investigate a cosmological model in which a fraction of the dark matter is atomic dark matter (ADM). This ADM consists of dark versions of the electron and of the proton, interacting with each other and with dark photons just as their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Ellie Hughes , Fei Ge , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Lloyd Knox , Srinivasan Raghunathan

We investigated a possible interaction between cold dark matter and dark energy, corresponding to a well-known interacting dark energy model discussed in the literature within the context of resolving the Hubble tension. We put constraints…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 David Benisty , Supriya Pan , Denitsa Staicova , Eleonora Di Valentino , Rafael C. Nunes