25–29 Jul 2016
University of Bergen
Europe/Zurich timezone

Detecting self interacting and dissipative dark matter by gravitational waves

27 Jul 2016, 12:05
15m
Egget auditorium in the UiB Student Center (University of Bergen)

Egget auditorium in the UiB Student Center

University of Bergen

Parkveien 1, 5007 Bergen, Norway
Contributed talk Cosmological Probes of Dark Matter Cosmological Probes of Dark Matter

Speaker

Prof. Subhendra Mohanty (Physical Research Laboratory)

Summary

We show that gravitational waves are absorbed while propagating through a medium with non-zero shear viscosity. This provides a method of testing dark matter and dark energy models where there is a self interaction and non-zero shear viscosity by observations of gravitational waves.

Based on (arXiv number) hep-ph 1603.02635

Author

Prof. Subhendra Mohanty (Physical Research Laboratory)

Presentation materials