RT Journal Article T1 R^2 dark matter A1 Ruiz Cembranos, José Alberto AB There is a non-trivial four-derivative extension of the gravitational spectrum that is free of ghosts and phenomenologically viable. It is the so called R^2-gravity since it is defined by the only addition of a term proportional to the square of the scalar curvature. Just the presence of this term does not improve the ultraviolet behaviour of Einstein gravity but introduces one additional scalar degree of freedom that can account for the dark matter of our Universe. PB IOP Publishing SN 1742-6588 YR 2011 FD 2011 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44919 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44919 LA eng NO © 2011 IOP Publishing Ltd.International Workshop on the Dark Side of the Universe (6º. 2010. Guanajuato, México). I am grateful to K. Olive, M. Peloso, and M. Voloshin for useful discussions. DOE grant DOE/DE-FG02-94ER40823, FPA 2005-02327 project (DGICYT, Spain), CAM/UCM 910309 project, and MICINN Consolider-Ingenio MULTIDARK CSD2009-00064. NO U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) NO Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica (DGICYT) MINECO, España NO Programa Consolider-Ingenio MULTIDARK NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO), España NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN), España DS Docta Complutense RD 10 abr 2025