MG14 - Talk detail |
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Tetradis, Nikolaos | |||||||
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University of Athens - Department of Physics - Zographou - Attica - Greece | |||||||
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DM1 |
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Viscous dark matter | |||||
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Abstract |
The possibility that dark matter can be described as a viscous fluid is considered. The effects of shear viscosity are examined in two scenarios: 1) Dark matter with shear viscosity arising from its fundamental interactions: The back-reaction of fluctuations on the average energy density could accelerate the cosmological expansion. 2) Conventional dark matter in a coarse-grained description: The effect of short-distance (galactic-scale) perturbations can be mapped onto pressure and viscosity terms in the effective theory of the long-distance perturbations. The calculation of the nonlinear power spectrum of the long-distance modes within the effective theory is expected to have better convergence properties than standard perturbation theory. |
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