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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 62: Astroteilchenphysik/Kosmologie (Theorie) 2

T 62.6: Talk

Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 18:00–18:15, VSH 17

Gravitational Waves as a New Probe of Dark Matter — P. S. Bhupal Dev^1,2, Manfred Lindner¹, and •Sebastian Ohmer¹ — ¹Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg — ²Washington University, St. Louis

Dark Matter (DM) could be composed of ultralight bosons which form a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in the early universe. We present a new method to test such a scenario by measuring the change of propagation speed of a gravitational wave passing through a BEC-DM halo. Current and future gravitational wave detectors can probe the entire parameter space of BEC-DM.