Interacting scalar radiation and dark matter in cosmology

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2016.04.026zbMATH Open1360.83098arXiv1603.00165OpenAlexW2289689673MaRDI QIDQ526199FDOQ526199

Yong Tang

Publication date: 10 May 2017

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate possible cosmological effects of interacting scalar radiation and dark matter. After its decoupling, scalar radiation can stream freely as neutrinos or self-interact strongly as perfect fluid, highly depending on the magnitude of its self-couplings. We obtain the general and novel structure for self-scattering rate and compare it with the expansion rate of our Universe. If its trilinear/cubic coupling is non-zero, scalar radiation can be eventually treated as perfect fluid. Possible effects on CMB are also discussed. When this scalar also mediates interaction among dark matter particles, the linear matter power spectrum for large scale structure can be modified differently from other models. We propose to use Debye shielding to avoid the singularity appearing in the scattering between scalar radiation and dark matter.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.00165

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

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• Residual non-abelian dark matter and dark radiation
• Probing neutrino interactions and dark radiation with gravitational waves
• Interacting dark matter and dark radiation
• An interacting scalar field and the recent cosmic acceleration
• Collisional dark matter and scalar phantoms
• Dark matter self-interactions and small scale structure

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