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Dark matter-baryons elastic coupling

David Figueruelo·Florencia Anabella Teppa Pannia
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We consider a cosmological model where dark matter and baryons interact via a pure momentum transfer. We present the foundations of the interaction and derive its main equations. In this framework, only the Euler equations for the two interacting components differ from those in the standard scenario. We also explain how this interaction relates with the common Tight-Coupling Approximation schemes typically used in many Boltzmann solver. After that, we implement the model in CLASS and CAMB Boltzmann solvers, which relay on those Tight-Coupling Approximation schemes and in SymBoltz, which is free from any approximation scheme. We demonstrate full consistency among all the implementations in the difference codes. We demonstrate how this type of interactions are useful regarding the $σ_8$ tension by producing a reduced clustering on smaller scales. Using cosmic microwave background, baryon acoustic oscillations, supernovae type Ia data and low-redshift constraints from Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster counts and from DES year 6 results, we show the interacting scenario is mildly preferred when those low-redshift datasets are included.

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David Figueruelo, Florencia Anabella Teppa Pannia. 2026-07-24. Dark matter-baryons elastic coupling. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22415

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