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7–11 Sept 2009
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

Galactic evolution and dark matter stability

7 Sept 2009, 15:15
15m
TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

TH Theory Conference Room

CERN

Speaker

Francesc FERRER (Washington University in St Louis)

Description

If the dark matter sector in the universe is composed by metastable particles, galaxies and galaxy clusters are expected to undergo significant evolution from high to low redshift. We show that the decay of dark matter, with a lifetime compatible with cosmological constraints, can be at the origin of the observed evolution of the Tully-Fisher relation of disk galaxies and alleviate the problem of the size-evolution of elliptical galaxies.

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