| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 168, 2018
Joint International Conference of ICGAC-XIII and IK-15 on Gravitation, Astrophysics and Cosmology
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| Article Number | 06005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Inflation and Dark Matter | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201816806005 | |
| Published online | 09 January 2018 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201816806005
Brief History of Ultra-light Scalar Dark Matter Models
Department of renewable energy, Jungwon university, 85 Munmu-ro, Goesan-eup, Goesan-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, 367-805, Korea
* e-mail: scikid@jwu.ac.kr
Published online: 9 January 2018
This is a review on the brief history of the scalar field dark matter model also known as fuzzy dark matter, BEC dark matter, wave dark matter, or ultra-light axion. In this model ultra-light scalar dark matter particles with mass m = O(10-22)eV condense in a single Bose-Einstein condensate state and behave collectively like a classical wave. Galactic dark matter halos can be described as a self-gravitating coherent scalar field configuration called boson stars. At the scale larger than galaxies the dark matter acts like cold dark matter, while below the scale quantum pressure from the uncertainty principle suppresses the smaller structure formation so that it can resolve the small scale crisis of the conventional cold dark matter model.
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