Speaker
Gonzalo Alonso Alvarez
(University of Toronto)
Description
The dark sector may feature dissipative interactions that can lead to the formation of dark matter substructure including dark stellar objects. A general prediction of these scenarios is that dark matter may be shinning in the particles that mediate the self interactions. I will describe the conditions under which conventional dark matter experiments are sensitive to this dark starlight, and discuss the role of the sun as a foreground in these searches. I will also discuss new searches tuned for the detection of the dark radiation signal.
Author
Gonzalo Alonso Alvarez
(University of Toronto)
