Dark matter

  1. Different interferometer combinations vary in axion dark matter sensitivity
    Explore how space-based gravitational wave detectors can detect axion-like dark matter using different time-delay interferometry combinations, achieving sensitivity across a broad mass range.
  2. Review compares methods for simulating fuzzy dark matter
    Review of numerical simulation methods for fuzzy dark matter, examining wave-based and fluid-based algorithms for resolving ultralight boson dynamics on galactic scales.
  3. VSDM release supports dark matter scattering calculations
    VSDM version 0.3 provides Julia and Python tools for computing dark matter scattering rates in anisotropic detector materials through partial rate matrix calculations.
  4. Python and Julia tools for dark matter detection calculations
    New software implementations accelerate calculations for directional dark matter detection using anisotropic crystal targets, enabling faster signal-background discrimination.
  5. Dark decay channels strengthen cosmological bounds on heavy neutral leptons
    Cosmological analysis shows heavy neutral leptons with dark decay modes face stronger big bang nucleosynthesis constraints, not weaker ones, narrowing viable parameter space for terrestrial detection.
  6. Cored stellar systems can remain stable in cuspy dark matter halos
    Simulations demonstrate that cored stellar systems remain stable within cuspy dark matter halos over Hubble timescales, refuting recent claims that such configurations would falsify cold dark matter.
  7. Review compares numerical tools for electroweak phase transition analysis
    Explore computational tools for analyzing electroweak phase transitions, including effective potential construction, nucleation rates, and thermodynamic parameters essential for gravitational wave.
  8. Dark matter halo alters black hole optics and thermodynamics
    Exact black hole solution in cored Plummer dark matter halo showing modified photon dynamics, shadows, lensing, quasinormal modes, and novel phase transitions absent in Schwarzschild spacetime.