Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
Higher-spin wave dark matter and polarized solitons
Presented by Mudit Jain, Rice University
I will first show that the effective non-relativistic theory of a gravitationally interacting, bosonic spin s field is described by a 2s+1 component Schrodinger-Poisson action. Then, I will show that the theory contains infinitely many 'classical' bound states (known as solitons), that can have macroscopically large intrinsic spin! Such solitons can be probed through their gravitational and/or non-gravitational interactions. Time permiting, I will also discuss vector solitons arising in self-interacting (without gravity) Proca theory.
2:00 pm, Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Zoom,
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