IDM2010

Session

Plenary session : Dark Matter Candidates 1

28 juil. 2010, 10:20

Amphithéatre Dumontet (Montpellier 2 University)

167. Feebly Interacting Dark Matter

Prof. John March-Russell (Oxford)

28/07/2010 10:20

Dark Matter Candidates

190. Bose-Einstein Condensation of Dark Matter Axions

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...