Speaker
Jaime Hoefken Zink
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Description
Hot white dwarfs lose energy mainly in the form of neutrinos through plasmon decay from the inner part of the star. Dark sectors, which are being studied to explain a broad collection of anomalies and unknown physics, do have an impact in the energy lost by this mechanism. I will focus on a Three Portal model that connects dark sectors to the Standard Model through a dark scalar (Higgs), a dark photon and dark neutrino states. The aim is to study the impact of the dark photon in the cooling mechanism of a white dwarf.
Primary authors
Jaime Hoefken Zink
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Dr
Maura Ramirez-Quezada
(University of Tokyo)
