Heavier and darker: spin-2 dark matter

• Event Date: 2017-07-21
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• Particle/String/Cosmology
• Speaker: Dr. Federico Urban (KBFI)  /  Host: Prof. C. Q. Geng (NTHU)
  Place: P512 of NCTS, 5F, 3rd General Building, Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ.

The ghost-free massive spin-2 field of bigravity turns out to be a very perfect Dark Matter candidate. I will review the theoretical foundations of bigravity, and outline the qualities and phenomenology of spin-2 gravitational dark matter.