Speaker
Yu-Ming Chen
(Carleton University)
Description
I will present a constraint on the sterile-neutrino dark matter through neutrino self-interaction inside a core-collapse supernova. The environment inside a core-collapse supernova has similar features as the early universe era where the sterile-neutrino dark matter is dominantly produced. I will start by showing how a massive scalar mediated neutrino self-interaction can affect the cooling rate of a core-collapse supernova. Then I will present the effect on the cooling luminosity, including the contributions to the thermal potential in the presence of non-zero chemical potentials from the plasma species. We will see that the supernova cooling argument can set a useful constraint on the neutrino self-interaction parameter space.
| Your Email | yumingchen@cmail.carleton.ca |
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| Supervisor | Yue Zhang |
| Supervisor Email | yzhang@physics.carleton.ca |
| Funding Agency | Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute |
Primary authors
Dr
Douglas Tuckler
(Carleton University)
Dr
Manibrata Sen
(Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)
Prof.
Walter Tangarife
(Loyola University)
Yu-Ming Chen
(Carleton University)
Prof.
Yue Zhang
(Carleton University)
