Trobada: Comparison of the latest Hubble Data with the First Simulations of Bosonic Dark Matter for the "No-WIMPs Era"

por Tom Broadhurst (IkerBasque)

martes 9 jun. 2015 10:15 → 11:15 Europe/Madrid

Seminar Room, 1.1.1 (IFIC)

Heavy particles are not the only interpretation for the observed coldness of dark matter - here cosmological simulations of a cold Bose-Einstein state are presented, revealing an unknown world of non-linear structures that distinguish this wave-like form of CDM from standard particle CDM. Key predictions are examined with Hubble Frontier-Field data, and local dwarf galaxies and QSO flux anomalies. This exploration is timely because of the continued laboratory absence of WIMPs, and may establish light bosons as the most viable interpretation of dark matter.