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Confirmed |
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Seminar Series |
IPHT-HEP |
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hep-ph |
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Tuesday 5 November 2019 |
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16:00 |
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IPHT |
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Seminar Room |
Salle Claude Itzykson, Bât. 774 |
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Speaker's Last Name |
Miguel Zumalacarregui |
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Speaker's Institution |
Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics and IPhT |
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Title |
No LIGO MACHO: bounds on primordial black holes as dark matter from gravitational lensing of supernovae |
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Abstract |
Black hole mergers detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) have revived dark matter models based on primordial black holes (PBH) or other massive compact halo objects (MACHO). These objects would be abundant in the mass range $1-100 M_{Sun}$, where rather remarkably, previous bounds were the weakest. I will present constraints on the PBH abundance and mass using the gravitational lensing magnification of type Ia supernovae using current data. Our results rule out the hypothesis of MACHO/PBH comprising the totality of the dark matter at high significance in the mass range $M > 0.01 M_{Sun}$. Eliminating the possibility of a LIGO-mass MACHO constraints early-universe models that produce PBHs and further strengthens the case for lighter dark matter candidates. |
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