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High Energy Physics Seminar - Sandip Roy (Princeton) - "Aggressively Dissipative Dark Sectors: Simulating and Modelling the Effects of Atomic Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies and Milky Way Analogues"

Speaker: Sandip Roy (Princeton)
Date: 9/6/2024
Time: 1 p.m.
Location: Room 464
Event Contact: Brandy Koebbe
BKOEBBE@ILLINOIS.EDU
Sponsor: Department of Physics
Event Type: Seminar/Symposium
 

Dark sector theories naturally lead to multi-component scenarios for dark matter where a sub-component can dissipate energy through self-interactions, allowing efficient dark cooling within galaxies. In this talk, I'll present the first cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of dwarf galaxies and Milky Way-mass galaxies where the majority of the dark matter is collisionless Cold Dark Matter (CDM), but a sub-component (~6%) is strongly dissipative minimal Atomic Dark Matter (ADM). The simulations demonstrate that the addition of even a small fraction of dissipative dark matter can significantly impact galactic evolution. ADM gas with roughly Standard-Model-like masses and couplings can cool efficiently and gravitationally collapse. These effects can significantly enhance galactic central densities, altering internal stellar kinematics as well as the orbital properties of satellite galaxies around Milky Way-mass hosts. As a result, upcoming observations with Rubin and other surveys will provide stringent constraints on such dissipative dark sector models.