STARS2017 - 4th Caribbean Symposium on Cosmology, Gravitation, Nuclear and Astroparticle Physics / SMFNS2017 - 5th International Symposium on Strong Electromagnetic Fields and Neutron Stars

Heavier and darker: spin-2 dark matter

11 May 2017, 15:00

30m

Talk STARS2017

Speaker

Federico Urban (KBFI, Tallinn, Estonia)

Description

The ghost-free massive spin-2 field of bigravity turns out to be an amusing Dark Matter candidate. I will review the theoretical foundations of bigravity, and outline the qualities and phenomenology of spin-2 gravitational dark matter.

Presentation materials

Urban2.pdf