Motivations for self-interacting dark matter models and their viable signatures

  • Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars

September 23, 2025 2:00 PM
PAIS 3205

Host:
Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine
Presenter:
Manoj Kaplinghat (UCI)
In this talk, I will motivate the idea that dark matter particles may interact with each other strongly and describe how adding self-interactions modifies galaxies, leading to constraints and preferred regions of parameter space. In these preferred regions, self-interactions can leave unique imprints in gravitational lensing images and faint galaxies, which could be observed soon.

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