Speaker
Dr
Sandra Robles
(The University of Melbourne)
Description
Neutron stars (NSs) are promising indirect probes for dark matter (DM), dark kinetic heating of NSs is within the reach of forthcoming infrared telescopes and only depends on the amount of accumulated DM. Inelastic DM is suppressed at tree level in direct detection experiments. Assuming that kinetic heating of NSs is only due to DM scattering and using an effective operator approach on fermionic DM that scatters inelastically, we show that NSs can set bounds on the cutoff scale of these operators for DM masses spanning several orders of magnitude regardless of momentum suppression.
| Parallel Session | Dark Matter, Astroparticle Physics |
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Primary author
Dr
Sandra Robles
(The University of Melbourne)
