Conveners
Thursday Afternoon Session 1: Thursday Afternoon Session 1
- Andrew Long (Rice University)
Even with only Standard Model interactions, neutrinos play a critical role in core-collapse supernovae, cooling the proto-neutron star, setting the conditions for nucleosynthesis, and likely powering the explosion. Their effects could be immensely more profound in the presence of new physics, often poorly constrained by laboratory experiments alone. In this talk, I will discuss the effects of...
Core-collapse supernovae (SNe), among the universe's most energetic events, offer a novel window into the dark sector by potentially producing a flux of boosted dark matter (BDM). This study investigates the detectability of such supernova-induced BDM, focusing on fermionic BDM candidates that interact via a dark gauge boson portal. We examine the expected BDM flux at Earth, considering...