Mass varying dark matter and its cosmological signature

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Autori principali: Das, Anirban, Das, Subinoy, Sethi, Shiv K.
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Pubblicazione: 2023
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author Das, Anirban
Das, Subinoy
Sethi, Shiv K.
author_facet Das, Anirban
Das, Subinoy
Sethi, Shiv K.
contents Nontrivial dark sector physics continues to be an interesting avenue in our quest to the nature of dark matter. In this paper, we study the cosmological signatures of mass-varying dark matter where its mass changes from zero to a nonzero value in the early Universe. We compute the changes in various observables, such as, the linear matter power spectrum and the cosmic microwave background anisotropy power spectrum. We explain the origin of the effects and point out a qualitative similarity between this model and a warm dark matter cosmology with no sudden mass transition. Finally, we do a simple analytical study to estimate the constraint on the parameters of this model from the Lyman-$α$ forest data.
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spellingShingle Mass varying dark matter and its cosmological signature
Das, Anirban
Das, Subinoy
Sethi, Shiv K.
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nontrivial dark sector physics continues to be an interesting avenue in our quest to the nature of dark matter. In this paper, we study the cosmological signatures of mass-varying dark matter where its mass changes from zero to a nonzero value in the early Universe. We compute the changes in various observables, such as, the linear matter power spectrum and the cosmic microwave background anisotropy power spectrum. We explain the origin of the effects and point out a qualitative similarity between this model and a warm dark matter cosmology with no sudden mass transition. Finally, we do a simple analytical study to estimate the constraint on the parameters of this model from the Lyman-$α$ forest data.
title Mass varying dark matter and its cosmological signature
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17947