Correlated gravitational wave and microlensing signals of macroscopic dark matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2021-11-11 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
Fermion dark matter particles can aggregate to form extended dark matter structures via a first-order phase transition in which the particles get trapped in the false vacuum. We study Fermi balls created in a phase transition induced by a generic quartic thermal effective potential. We show that for Fermi balls of mass, , correlated observations of gravitational waves produced during the phase transition (at SKA/THEIA/Ares), and gravitational microlensing caused by Fermi balls (at Subaru-HSC), can be made.
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@article{arxiv.2107.00859,
title = {Correlated gravitational wave and microlensing signals of macroscopic dark matter},
author = {Danny Marfatia and Po-Yan Tseng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.00859},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
16 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. Version to appear in JHEP