Speaker
Amol Patwardhan
(UC Berkeley)
Description
We discuss the implications in a core-collapse supernova environment of a light dark matter particle that sees the standard model exclusively through its interaction with neutrinos. We consider the case of a light dark matter candidate which couples to neutrinos through a heavy mediator, and examine parameter regimes of interest from the point of view of supernova cooling, neutrino decoupling, and proto-neutron star heat transport.
Primary authors
Amol Patwardhan
(UC Berkeley)
Prof.
Sanjay Reddy
(Institute for Nuclear Theory, U Washington)