PIRSA:23010059

The Minimum Fragment Mass in Dissipative Dark Matter Halos

Gurian, J. (2023). The Minimum Fragment Mass in Dissipative Dark Matter Halos. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/23010059

Gurian, James. The Minimum Fragment Mass in Dissipative Dark Matter Halos. Perimeter Institute, Jan. 16, 2023, https://pirsa.org/23010059 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:23010059,
            doi = {10.48660/23010059},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/23010059},
            author = {Gurian, James},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {The Minimum Fragment Mass in Dissipative Dark Matter Halos},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2023},
            month = {jan},
            note = {PIRSA:23010059 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

James Gurian

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

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Abstract

The dark universe may host physics as rich and complex as the visible sector, but the only guaranteed window to the dark sector(s) is through gravity. If the dark matter has a dissipative self-interaction, dark gas can cool and collapse to form compact object whose mergers may be accessible to LIGO. The mass spectrum of the merging compact objects encodes fundamental physical information--a purely gravitational probe of dark matter microphysics.
In this talk, I will present our work to forward-model the gas collapse process in the "atomic dark matter" model, beginning with a retelling of the standard cosmological history including this new ingredient and culminating in a description of the fragmentation scale of the dark gas.

Zoom link:  https://pitp.zoom.us/j/99141938599?pwd=T0I1d1A5R0JBNWFlSHlCREl5dElTUT09