Solving the small scale structure puzzles with dissipative dark matter

by Robert Foot (University of Melbourne)

Tuesday 26 Jul 2016, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Berlin

seminar room 2, building 2A (DESY Hamburg)

Dissipative dark matter, where dark matter couples to a massless 'dark photon' is discussed. In particular it will be shown that such a dissipative dark matter model has the potential to solve the small scale structure puzzles, including the missing satellite problem, cored galactic dark matter density profile, galactic scaling relations, planar orientation of satellite galaxies around Andromeda and the Milky Way. Implications of dissipative dark matter for direct detection experiments may also be discussed.