2023/03/31 by Anirban Das, Das, Anirban, Subinoy Das +3 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Scientific Research and Discoveries
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2303.17947
openalex publication_date 2023/03/31 · openalex created_date 2023/04/06 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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.