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We revisit the discrete dark matter model with $A_4$ flavor symmetry originally introduced by M.Hirsch {\it et.al}. We show that radiative corrections can lead to non-zero $\theta_{13}$ and non-zero mass for the lightest neutrino. We find…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Yuta Hamada , Tatsuo Kobayashi , Atsushi Ogasahara , Yuji Omura , Fumihiro Takayama , Daiki Yasuhara

The central densities of dark matter (DM) halos are much lower than predicted in cold DM models of structure formation. Confirmation that they have cores with a finite central density would allow us to rule out many popular types of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Sellwood

The multicomponent dark matter model with self-scattering and inter-conversions of species into one another is an alternative dark matter paradigm that is capable of resolving the long-standing problems of $\Lambda$CDM cosmology at small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Keita Todoroki , Mikhail V. Medvedev

Self-interactions of dark matter particles can potentially lead to an observable separation between the dark matter halo and the stars of a galaxy moving through a region of large dark matter density. Such a separation has recently been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-12 Felix Kahlhoefer , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg , Janis Kummer , Subir Sarkar

Many models of dark matter include self-interactions beyond gravity. A variety of astrophysical observations have previously been used to place limits on the strength of such self-interactions. However, previous works have generally focused…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-03 Zachary Bogorad , Peter W. Graham , Harikrishnan Ramani

Dark matter may play an important role in galaxy formation through its non-trivial properties. For example, self-interacting dark matter may contribute to the formation of the widely observed core structures in galaxies. However, galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Noriaki Kitazawa

UltraLight Dark Matter (ULDM) is an axion-like dark matter candidate with an extremely small particle mass. ULDM halos consist of a spherically symmetric solitonic core and an NFW-like skirt. We simulate halo creation via soliton mergers…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-02 J. Luna Zagorac , Emily Kendall , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Richard Easther

We investigate how self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) with anisotropic scattering affects the evolution of isolated dark matter haloes as well as systems with two colliding haloes. For isolated haloes, we find that the evolution can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Andrew Robertson , Richard Massey , Vincent Eke

In this work we study the impact of new physics, stimulated by flavor anomalies, on neutrino oscillations through dense dark matter halo. Inspired by a model where a Majorana dark matter fermion and two new scalar fields contribute to $b…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-20 Ashutosh Kumar Alok , Neetu Raj Singh Chundawat , Arindam Mandal

Multi-level dark matter with diagonal and off-diagonal interactions shows a rich phenomenology in its self-scattering. If the interactions are mediated by a particle that is less massive than the dark matter, Sommerfeld effect can lead to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-07 Anirban Das , Basudeb Dasgupta

The self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) paradigm offers a potential solution to the small-scale structure problems faced by collision-less cold dark matter. This framework incorporates self-interactions among dark matter particles,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-03 Chengcheng Han , Ke-Pan Xie , Jin Min Yang , Mengchao Zhang

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

Collisionless particles, such as cold dark matter, interact only by gravity and do not have any associated length scale, therefore the dark halos of galaxies should have negligible core radii. This expectation has been supported by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Ben Moore

The small-scale structure problems of the universe can be solved by self-interacting dark matter that becomes strongly interacting at low energies. A particularly predictive model is resonant short-range self-interactions, with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-14 Eric Braaten , Daekyoung Kang , Ranjan Laha

Flavour symmetries provide an appealing mechanism to stabilize the dark matter particle. I present a simple model of quark flavoured dark matter that goes beyond the framework of minimal flavour violation. I discuss the phenomenological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-18 Monika Blanke

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) has gathered growing attention as a solution to the small scale problems of the collisionless cold dark matter (DM). We investigate the SIDM using stellar kinematics of 23 ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Kohei Hayashi , Masahiro Ibe , Shin Kobayashi , Yuhei Nakayama , Satoshi Shirai

An unavoidable prediction of scenarios with Dark Matter (DM) self-interactions is the existence of number changing processes that convert $n$ initial DM particles into $m$ final ones ($n\to m$ processes), possibly accompanied by Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-17 Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia , Motoko Fujiwara , Alejandro Ibarra , Takashi Toma

We present a simple model of dark matter that can address astrophysical and cosmological puzzles across a wide range of scales. The model is an application of the Secretly Asymmetric Dark Matter mechanism, where several flavors of dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-15 Christopher Dessert , Can Kilic , Cynthia Trendafilova , Yuhsin Tsai

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Moritz S. Fischer , Marcus Brüggen , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg , Klaus Dolag , Felix Kahlhoefer , Antonio Ragagnin , Andrew Robertson

We present a class of dark matter models, in which the dark matter particle is a feebly interacting massive particle (FIMP) produced via the decay of an electrically charged and/or colored parent particle. Given the feeble interaction, dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 G. Bélanger , N. Desai , A. Goudelis , J. Harz , A. Lessa , J. M. No , A. Pukhov , S. Sekmen , D. Sengupta , B. Zaldivar , J. Zurita