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High Energy Phenomenology Seminar: Jack Setford (Toronto) "Mirror Neutron Stars: New Probes of Dark Complexity"

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Department of Physics
Virtual
Virtual event
Date
Apr 2, 2021   12:00 pm  
Speaker
Jack Setford (Toronto)
Contact
Brandy Shier
E-Mail
BSHIER@ILLINOIS.EDU
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Originating Calendar
Physics - High Energy Physics Seminar

The paradigm of neutral naturalness suggests the existence of highly non-minimal hidden sectors. In particular, the Mirror Twin Higgs model postulates that some of dark matter is in the form of mirror matter, featuring mirror quarks, leptons and gauge bosons whose masses are a few times heavier than their Standard Model counterparts. I will discuss several new astrophysical probes of mirror sectors in general, focussing in particular on the possibility that mirror matter could have coalesced into Mirror Neutron Stars, invisible cousins of ordinary neutron stars. I will show how the properties of Mirror Neutron Stars can be determined using repurposed Lattice QCD data, and discuss the gravitational wave signatures of Mirror Neutron Star mergers. Given the impressive reach of current and future gravitational wave detectors, gravitational wave astronomy may offer a novel and powerful means of detecting (or constraining) non-minimal dark sectors.

 
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