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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, 3×1012MMFB105M3\times 10^{-12}M_\odot \lesssim M_{\rm FB} \lesssim 10^{-5}M_\odot, correlated observations of gravitational waves produced during the phase transition (at SKA/THEIA/μ\muAres), 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}
}

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16 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. Version to appear in JHEP