Self-interacting dark matter in cosmology: accurate numerical implementation and observational constraints

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/02/024MaRDI QIDQ5063496zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rafael Yunis, Carlos R. Argüelles, Claudia G. Scóccola, Diana López Nacir, Gastón L. Giordano

Publication date 21 March 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.02657

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological perturbation theorydark matter theoryLyman alpha forestparticle physics-cosmology connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Nuclear physics (81V35) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: This paper presents a systematic and accurate treatment of the evolution of cosmological perturbations in self-interacting dark matter models, for particles which decoupled from the primordial plasma while relativistic. We provide a numerical implementation of the Boltzmann hierarchies developed in a previous paper [JCAP, 09 (2020) 041] in a publicly available Boltzmann code and show how it can be applied to realistic DM candidates such as sterile neutrinos either under resonant or non-resonant production mechanisms, and for different field mediators. At difference with traditional fluid approximations -- also known as a $c_{meff}-c_{mvis}$ parametrizations -- our approach follows the evolution of phase-space perturbations under elastic DM interactions for a wide range of interaction models, including the effects of late kinetic decoupling. Finally, we analyze the imprints left by different self interacting models on linear structure formation, which can be constrained using Lyman-$alpha$ forest and satellite counts. We find new lower bounds on the particle mass that are less restrictive than previous constraints.

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