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Dark matter in quantum gravity

We show that quantum gravity, whatever its ultra-violet completion might be, could account for dark matter. Indeed, besides the massless gravitational field recently observed in the form of gravitational waves, the spectrum of quantum gravity contains two massive fields respectively of spin 2 and sp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Calmet, Xavier, Latosh, Boris
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6417455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30956558
http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6005-8
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Sumario:We show that quantum gravity, whatever its ultra-violet completion might be, could account for dark matter. Indeed, besides the massless gravitational field recently observed in the form of gravitational waves, the spectrum of quantum gravity contains two massive fields respectively of spin 2 and spin 0. If these fields are long-lived, they could easily account for dark matter. In that case, dark matter would be very light and only gravitationally coupled to the standard model particles.