Seminari

Heavier and darker: spin-2 dark matter

Name: Heavier and darker: spin-2 dark matter
Start: 2017-01-10T15:00:00+01:00
End: 2017-01-10T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia

by Dr Federico Urban (NICPB, Tallinn)

Tuesday 10 Jan 2017, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Teorici (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia)

Aula Teorici

Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia

Via Irnerio, 46

Description

The ghost-free massive spin-2 fields of multimetric extensions of General Relativity turn out to be very perfect candidates for the observed Dark Matter. I will review the theoretical foundations of bigravity, and outline the qualities of spin-2 gravitational dark matter.