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Graviballs and Dark Matter

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-12-07 v2 Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We investigate the possible existence of graviballs, a system of bound gravitons, and show that two gravitons can be bound together by their gravitational interaction. This idea connects to black hole formation by a high-energy 2N2\to N scattering and to the gravitational geon studied by Brill and Hartle. Our calculations rely on the formalism and techniques of quantum field theory, specifically on low-energy quantum gravity. By solving numerically the relativistic equations of motion, we have access to the space-time dynamics of the (2-gravitons) graviball formation. We argue that the graviball is a viable dark matter candidate and we compute the associated gravitational lensing.

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@article{arxiv.2006.02534,
  title  = {Graviballs and Dark Matter},
  author = {B. Guiot and A. Borquez and A. Deur and K. Werner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.02534},
  year   = {2020}
}

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25 pages, 6 figures, 2 videos as ancillary files. Includes two new sections

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