24–26 May 2021
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Nuclear Fusion inside Dark Matter

26 May 2021, 15:00
15m
DM DM VIII

Speaker

Javier Fernández Acevedo (Queen's University)

Description

Large composite states of dark fermions bound by a scalar provide a potential field under which Standard Model nuclei can accelerate to large kinetic energies, resulting in copious amounts of collisional radiation and, at the highest energies, thermonuclear fusion. In this talk, I discuss how this effect can cause white dwarfs to explode, as well as its detectability prospects at neutrino observatories like IceCube.

Primary author

Javier Fernández Acevedo (Queen's University)

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