Journal of High Energy Physics (Nov 2021)
Correlated gravitational wave and microlensing signals of macroscopic dark matter
Abstract
Abstract Fermion dark matter particles can aggregate to form extended dark matter structures via a first-order phase transition in which the particles get trapped in the false vacuum. We study Fermi balls created in a phase transition induced by a generic quartic thermal effective potential. We show that for Fermi balls of mass, 3 × 10 −12 M ⊙ ≲ M FB ≲ 10 −5 M ⊙, correlated observations of gravitational waves produced during the phase transition (at SKA/THEIA/μAres), and gravitational microlensing caused by Fermi balls (at Subaru-HSC), can be made.
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