Prof.
John March-Russell
(Oxford)
28/07/2010 10:20
Dark Matter Candidates
Dr
Pierre Sikivie
(University of Florida)
28/07/2010 10:50
Dark Matter Candidates
Talk
It was found recently that dark matter axions thermalize and form
a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). This provides an opportunity to
distinguish axions from other forms of dark matter on observational
grounds. I'll show that if the dark matter is axions, tidal torque
theory predicts a specific structure for the phase space distribution
of the halos of isolated disk galaxies, such as the...