Zhichao Carton

Aug 29, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Carnegie Observatories |Los Alamos |Tat Chee |Zhichao Carton

Dark matter is a necessary ingredient to the Standard Model of Cosmology. Yet, its particle nature remains mysterious. Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is an alternative theory to the standard cold collisionless dark matter (CDM) model. In addition to gravitational interactions, dark matter (DM) particles can also have sizable self-interactions that allow them to scatter off with each other.