Speaker: Federico Urban (CEICO—FZU, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Title: The making and testing of spin-2 ULDM galaxies
Abstract: Ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) is a compelling and phenomenologically rich candidate for the cosmological dark matter. ULDM is typically considered to be a (pseudo)scalar or a vector field, but even more interesting and unique physics can be realised for spin-2 tensor fields. In this talk I will review how spin-2 dark matter arises from the only known consistent modification of gravity to include multiple spin-2 fields, and discuss (a) how the ULDM spin changes the properties of idealised haloes obtained through isolated soliton mergers, (b) how to detect spin-2 ULDM using pulsar-timing data, in particular how to detect perturbations in binary systems with machine-learning techniques, and (c) how to detect spin-2 ULDM with gravitational wave interferometers, with an emphasis on existing LIGO/Virgo data.
Room: Sala de Reuniões e Seminários (2-8.3, 2nd Floor of Physics Building)