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Xavier Calmet1,2, Boris Latosh1,3
11Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QH UK.
Abstract:
We show that quantum gravity, whatever its ultra-violet completion might be, could account for dark matter. Indeed, besides the massless gravitational field recently observed in the form of gravitational waves, the spectrum of quantum gravity contains two massive fields respectively of spin 2 and spin 0. If these fields are long-lived, they could easily account for dark matter. In that case, dark matter would be very light and only gravitationally coupled to the standard model particles.
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