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Heavier and darker
Author(s) -
Urban F.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
astronomische nachrichten
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-3994
pISSN - 0004-6337
DOI - 10.1002/asna.201713430
Subject(s) - physics , phenomenology (philosophy) , dark matter , theoretical physics , philosophy , astrophysics , epistemology
The ghost‐free massive spin‐2 field of bimetric theory turns out to be an amusing dark matter candidate. I review the theoretical foundations of bimetric theory, and outline the qualities and phenomenology of heavy spin‐2 dark matter.