Description
Hot white dwarfs lose energy mainly by emitting 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 and dark neutrino states in the cooling mechanism of a white dwarf.
Speaker
Jaime Hoefken Zink
