Speaker
Gonzalo Alonso Alvarez
(U Toronto)
Description
The dark sector may feature long-range and inelastic interactions that can lead to the formation of dark matter substructure and dark stellar objects.
A general prediction of these scenarios is that dark matter may be shinning in the dark photons that mediate this force.
I will describe under which conditions low-threshold dark matter experiments are sensitive to this dark starlight, and discuss the role of the sun as a foreground in these searches.
Finally, I will present a new experimental setup that has the potential to improve the current reach and test new scenarios.
