The Mitchell Conference on Collider, Dark Matter, and Neutrino Physics 2025

Session

Thursday Afternoon Session 1

May 15, 2025, 1:45 PM

Hawking Auditorium (Mitchell Institute, Texas A&M University)

Conveners

Thursday Afternoon Session 1: Thursday Afternoon Session 1

• Andrew Long (Rice University)

43. Neutrino Self-Interaction in Core-Collapse Supernovae

Anna M. Suliga (UC Berkeley and U. of Wisconsin), Anna Suliga

5/15/25, 1:45 PM

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...

61. Dirac Neutrinos and the Strong CP Problem from SU(5) × SU(5)

Anil Thapa (Colorado State University)

5/15/25, 2:08 PM

45. Boosted Dark Matter from Supernova

Fazlollah Hajkarim (University of Oklahoma)

5/15/25, 2:31 PM

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...

46. Axion stars: mass functions and constraints

Jae Hyeok Chang (Fermilab and UIC)

5/15/25, 2:54 PM

44. Signatures of quasi-Dirac neutrinos in diffuse high-energy astrophysical neutrinos

Yago Porto