Jun 2 – 6, 2025
Santander, Spain
Europe/Madrid timezone

Diverse dark matter haloes in Two-field Fuzzy Dark Matter

Jun 3, 2025, 4:15 PM
20m
Santander, Spain

Santander, Spain

Gran Hotel Victoria C. María Luisa Pelayo, 38 39005 Santander Cantabria, Spain
Contributed Talk Galaxies, Dynamics and Cosmology Tuesday Afternoon I

Speaker

Hoang Nhan Luu (Donostia International Physics Center)

Description

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a compelling candidate for dark matter, offering a natural explanation for the structure of diffuse low-mass haloes. However, the canonical FDM model with a mass of $10^{-22}~{\rm eV}$ encounters challenges in reproducing the observed diversity of dwarf galaxies, except for possibly scenarios where strong galactic feedback is invoked. The introduction of multiple-field FDM can provide a potential resolution to this diversity issue. The theoretical plausibility of this dark matter model is also enhanced by the fact that multiple axion species with logarithmically-distributed mass spectrum exist as a generic prediction of string theory. In this talk, I consider the axiverse hypothesis and investigate non-linear structure formation in the two-field fuzzy dark matter (2FDM) model.

Author

Hoang Nhan Luu (Donostia International Physics Center)

Co-authors

Alvaro Pozo (DIPC, UPV/EHU) George Smoot (UC Berkeley) Henry Tye (Cornell University) Lars Hernquist (CfA, Harvard University) Leo Fung (Durham University) Mark Vogelsberger (MKI, MIT) Philip Mocz (CCA, Flatiron Institute) Razieh Emami (CfA, Harvard University) Tao Liu (IAS, HKUST) Tom Broadhurst (DIPC, UPV/EHU)

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