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We present a mechanism for dark matter (DM) production involving a self-interacting sector that at early times is ultra-relativistic but far-underpopulated relative to thermal equilibrium (such initial conditions often arise, e.g., from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 John March-Russell , Hannah Tillim , Stephen M. West

We systemically evaluate the performance of the self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halo model proposed in arXiv:2305.16176 with matched halos from high-resolution cosmological CDM and SIDM simulations. The model incorporates SIDM effects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-20 Daneng Yang , Ethan O. Nadler , Hai-Bo Yu

Galaxies residing in dark matter halos exert significant gravitational effects that alter halo structure and dynamics. The complexity of these interactions escalates with the diversity of galactic structures and the variability in dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-28 Daneng Yang

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

Non-gravitational interactions between dark matter particles with strong scattering, but relatively small annihilation and dissipation, has been proposed to match various observables on cluster and group scales. In this paper, we present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Arka Banerjee , Susmita Adhikari , Neal Dalal , Surhud More , Andrey Kravtsov

Spergel & Steinhardt proposed the possibility that the dark matter particles are self-interacting, as a solution to two discrepancies between the predictions of cold dark matter models and the observations: first, the observed dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jordi Miralda-Escude

We present updated constraints on the free-streaming of warm dark matter (WDM) particles derived from an analysis of the Lya flux power spectrum measured from high-resolution spectra of 25 z > 4 quasars obtained with the Keck High…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Viel , G. D. Becker , J. S. Bolton , M. G. Haehnelt

The recent preference for a dynamical dark energy (DE) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument seems to call for interactions between DE and dark matter (DM), either from direct DE-DM interaction or indirect interaction induced by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zhen-Hong Lyu , Rong-Gen Cai , Shao-Jiang Wang , Xiang-Xi Zeng

Using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations with physically motivated models of super-massive black hole (SMBH) formation and growth, we compare the assembly of Milky Way-mass ( $M_{\mathrm{vir}} \approx 7 \times 10^{11}$ $M_{\odot}$ at $z…

Galactic rotation curves are a fundamental constraint for any cosmological model. We use controlled N-body simulations of galaxies to study the gravitational effect of baryons in a scenario with collisionless cold dark matter (CDM) versus…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-19 Peter Creasey , Omid Sameie , Laura V. Sales , Hai-Bo Yu , Mark Vogelsberger , Jesús Zavala

Despite the fact that the $\Lambda$CDM model has been highly successful over the last few decades in providing an accurate fit to a broad range of cosmological and astrophysical observations, different intriguing tensions and anomalies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-05 Pietro Ghedini , Rasmi Hajjar , Olga Mena

In this paper we study the density profiles of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) haloes spanning the full observable mass range, from dwarf galaxies to galaxy clusters. Using realistic simulations that model the baryonic physics relevant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-25 Kyrylo Bondarenko , Anastasia Sokolenko , Alexey Boyarsky , Andrew Robertson , David Harvey , Yves Revaz

We present results from N-body simulations of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) subhalos, which could host ultra-faint dwarf spheroidal galaxies, inside a Milky-Way-like main halo. We find that high-concentration subhalos are driven to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-11 Felix Kahlhoefer , Manoj Kaplinghat , Tracy R. Slatyer , Chih-Liang Wu

We report direct-detection constraints on light dark matter particles interacting with electrons. The results are based on a method that exploits the extremely low levels of leakage current of the DAMIC detector at SNOLAB of…

We study the formation and evolution of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos. We find analytical, fully cosmological similarity solutions taking account of the collisional interaction of SIDM particles. This interaction results in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Kyungjin Ahn , Paul R. Shapiro

The increasingly significant tensions within $\Lambda$CDM, combined with the lack of detection of dark matter (DM) in laboratory experiments, have boosted interest in non-minimal dark sectors, which are theoretically well-motivated and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Niklas Becker , Deanna C. Hooper , Felix Kahlhoefer , Julien Lesgourgues , Nils Schöneberg

Diverse astrophysical observations suggest the existence of cold dark matter that interacts only gravitationally with radiation and ordinary baryonic matter. Any nonzero coupling between dark matter and baryons would provide a significant…

Spergel and Steinhardt have recently proposed the concept of dark matter with strong self-interactions as a means to address numerous discrepancies between observations of dark matter halos on subgalactic scales and the predictions of the…

We place observational constraints on a coupling between dark energy and dark matter by using 71 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first year of the five-year Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS), the cosmic microwave background (CMB) shift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 Zong-Kuan Guo , Nobuyoshi Ohta , Shinji Tsujikawa

The idea of Dark Matter (DM) with self interaction was invoked to resolve a number of discrepancies between the simulation based predictions by collisionless cold DM and the astrophysical observations on galactic and subgalactic scales.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-04 Kamakshya Prasad Modak