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Statut Confirmé
Série IPHT-HEP
Domaines hep-ph
Date Mardi 21 Mars 2023
Heure 14:00
Institut IPHT
Salle Salle Claude Itzykson, Bât. 774
Nom de l'orateur Marco Gorghetto
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Institution de l'orateur Weizmann Institute of Science
Titre Boson Stars and Dark Matter Substructure
Résumé I will argue that many theories in which the dark matter is a light boson (with a mass < eV) lead to theoretically and observationally interesting dark matter small-scale structure. As a particular, directly calculable, example I will show that this is the case for any new vector boson with non-zero mass (a ‘dark photon’ or ‘Proca boson’) that is present during inflation, at which time a relic abundance is automatically produced purely from vacuum fluctuations. Due to a remarkable parametric coincidence between the size of the primordial density perturbations and the scale at which quantum pressure is relevant, a substantial fraction of the dark matter inevitably collapses into gravitationally bound solitons. The central densities of these ‘dark photon star’, or ‘Proca star’, solitons are typically a factor 10^6 larger than the local background dark matter density today. I will also mention some possible observational consequences and directions for future work.
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