Speaker
Javier Fernández Acevedo
(SLAC)
Description
White dwarfs have long been considered as large-scale dark matter (DM) detectors. Owing to their high density and relatively large size, these objects can capture large amounts of DM, potentially producing detectable signals. In this talk, I will show how we can probe for the first time the elusive higgsino, one of the remaining supersymmetric DM candidates that is largely unconstrained, using the white dwarf population within the Milky Way’s central parsec combined with existing gamma-ray observations of this region.
Author
Javier Fernández Acevedo
(SLAC)
