24–29 Aug 2014
Hamburg University
Europe/Berlin timezone

Dark matter annihilation in the core of a neutron star

25 Aug 2014, 17:20
25m
Seminarraum 121 (ESAW)

Seminarraum 121

ESAW

Talk 4) Dark matter and cosmology Dark matter and cosmology

Speaker

Dr M. Angeles Perez-Garcia (University of Salamanca, Spain)

Description

Gravitational accretion of dark matter in neutron stars may constitute a mechanism to check for further indirect effects of its existence. In this way, dark matter annihilations taking place within such compact astrophysical objects may prevent the appearance of additional particle population of hadrons inside the neutron star core. We discuss on the experimental consequences of this possibility.

Primary author

Dr M. Angeles Perez-Garcia (University of Salamanca, Spain)

Co-author

Dr Joseph Silk (University of Oxford, UK and Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, France)

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