Astrophysics Seminar

Ultra light dark matter - A novel proposal

Speaker: T R Govindarajan (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)

Date and time
Venue
Library Block Lecture Hall

Abstract

We revisit the question of `should photon be massless? ' After answering this question I propose a candidate dark matter with mass as low as $10^{-22}eV$. Implications of this are presented for several areas: Bose Einstein Condensate, CMB spectrum, Dwarf galaxies.