Heavier and darker: spin-2 dark matter

by Dr Federico Urban (NICPB, Tallinn)

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

Aula Teorici (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia)

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.