Jan Ollé - Oscillons and Dark Matter

Europe/Madrid
Seminar (IFAE)

Seminar

IFAE

Marc Manera (IFAE), Pere Masjuan (IFAE), Stefano Terzo (IFAE)
Description

Scalar ultralight dark matter models are very good candidates for cold dark matter (CDM). Not only do they keep the success of CDM at large-scales, but also provide a possible solution to the so-called “small-scale crisis”. I will talk about the importance of self-interactions in these models, which almost inevitably lead to the formation of oscillons. These are bound states of a large number of such particles that remain localized for extremely long time-scales. As a result, they have very interesting phenomenological properties as dark matter that I will discuss.

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  • Alexis Menéndez Vázquez
  • Chaitanya Priyadarshi
  • Dirk Hornung
  • Elena Moretti
  • Enrique Fernandez
  • Javier Sabariego
  • M. Pilar Casado
  • Manel Martinez