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University of Kansas
PPP Theory Seminar: Andrew Long (Rice University), "Searching for new physics with X-rays from magnetic white dwarf stars"
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Meeting link: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/92638240546
Meeting ID: 926 3824 0546
Passcode: 779046
Abstract: Axions are hypothetical particles that couple extremely weakly to regular matter, which makes them challenging to probe in the laboratory. However, axions should be produced in the dense environments of compact stars, providing an additional cooling channel that leads to well-known constraints on the axion’s couplings to matter. These constraints are indirect, and although compact stars are predicted to “glow” in axions, this radiation is invisible to us. In this talk I will discuss how the axion radiation is converted into X-ray emission in the strong magnetic field that surround many compact stars, thereby providing a new strategy for probing axions through X-ray observations of white dwarfs and neutron stars.
