Simulation of thermal conduction by asymmetric dark matter in realistic stars and planets

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Auteurs principaux: Banks, Hannah, Beram, Stephanie, Reid, Rashaad, Vincent, Aaron C.
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author Banks, Hannah
Beram, Stephanie
Reid, Rashaad
Vincent, Aaron C.
author_facet Banks, Hannah
Beram, Stephanie
Reid, Rashaad
Vincent, Aaron C.
contents Dark matter captured in stars can act as an additional heat transport mechanism, modifying fusion rates and asteroseismoloigcal observables. Calculations of heat transport rates rely on approximate solutions to the Boltzmann equation, which have never been verified in realistic stars. Here, we simulate heat transport in the Sun, the Earth, and a brown dwarf model, using realistic radial temperature, density, composition and gravitational potential profiles. We show that the formalism developed in arXiv:2111.06895 remains accurate across all celestial objects considered, across a wide range of kinematic regimes, for both spin-dependent and spin-independent interactions where scattering with multiple species becomes important. We further investigate evaporation rates of dark matter from the Sun, finding that previous calculations appear robust. Our Monte Carlo simulation software Cosmion is publicly available.
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spellingShingle Simulation of thermal conduction by asymmetric dark matter in realistic stars and planets
Banks, Hannah
Beram, Stephanie
Reid, Rashaad
Vincent, Aaron C.
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Dark matter captured in stars can act as an additional heat transport mechanism, modifying fusion rates and asteroseismoloigcal observables. Calculations of heat transport rates rely on approximate solutions to the Boltzmann equation, which have never been verified in realistic stars. Here, we simulate heat transport in the Sun, the Earth, and a brown dwarf model, using realistic radial temperature, density, composition and gravitational potential profiles. We show that the formalism developed in arXiv:2111.06895 remains accurate across all celestial objects considered, across a wide range of kinematic regimes, for both spin-dependent and spin-independent interactions where scattering with multiple species becomes important. We further investigate evaporation rates of dark matter from the Sun, finding that previous calculations appear robust. Our Monte Carlo simulation software Cosmion is publicly available.
title Simulation of thermal conduction by asymmetric dark matter in realistic stars and planets
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14342