Dipolar dark matter as an effective field theory
Abstract
Dipolar dark matter is an alternative model motivated by the challenges faced by the standard cold dark matter model to describe the right phenomenology at galactic scales. A promising realization of dipolar dark matter was recently proposed in the context of massive bigravity theory. The model contains dark matter particles as well as a vector field coupled to the effective composite metric of bigravity. This model is completely safe in the gravitational sector thanks to the underlying properties of massive bigravity. In this work, we investigate the exact decoupling limit of the theory, including the contribution of the matter sector, and prove that it is free of ghosts in this limit. We conclude that the theory is acceptable as an effective field theory below the strong coupling scale.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- October 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.083512
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1701.07747
- Bibcode:
- 2017PhRvD..96h3512B
- Keywords:
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- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 8 pages, 1 figure