We present two different interacting dark sector models: one in which the dark matter particle is charged under a non-abelian dark gauge group, whose gauge bosons constitute a dark radiation component; and one in which a fraction of the dark matter has efficient number-changing self-interactions that keep it warm. We find that in general the structure formation is slowed down in these models, which addresses a discrepancy in the measurement of the σ8 parameter of large-scale structure. We also perform fits to cosmological data for a generalization of the non-abelian model (in which only a fraction of the dark matter interacts with the dark gauge bosons) and show that it can ease the current experimental tension in the measurement of the Hubble expansion rate H0.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/33207 |
| Date | 27 November 2018 |
| Creators | Buen Abad Najar, Manuel Alejandro |
| Contributors | Schmaltz, Martin, Katz, Emanuel |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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