Speaker
Valera Frolov
(LIGO lab)
Description
A worldwide network of kilometer-scale laser interferometers will come into operation during the next several years. Future terrestrial and space-based detectors have also been planned. We investigate the use of gravitational-wave observatories as detectors of dark matter in the process of direct interaction of DM objects with detectors. We will present the prospects for a detection based on gravitational interaction and on possible additional interactions – modeled as a Yukawa potential – between dark matter and the particles of the standard model. We will also briefly discuss the possibility of a domain wall (DW) detection, albeit the equation of state for a DW network is not appropriate as a DM candidate.
Primary author
Valera Frolov
(LIGO lab)
