Horizontal branch stars as a probe of non baryonic dark matter [electronic resource].
Published
Berkeley, Calif. : Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1989. Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
The solar neutrino problem can be interpreted as a signature for the existence and properties of certain dark matter candidate particles (''cosmions''). We investigate the breaking of convection by neutrino-like cosmions in horizontal branch (HB) stars. These particles may affect globular clusters in the inner galaxy or in dwarf spheroidals where the dark matter density is larger than in the solar neighborhood, leading to an observable reduction of the HB lifetime. 10 refs., 1 fig.
Report Numbers
E 1.99:lbl-26589 E 1.99: conf-881212-2 conf-881212-2 lbl-26589
Published through SciTech Connect. 01/01/1989. "lbl-26589" " conf-881212-2" "DE89015448" Particle astrophysics workshop, Berkeley, CA, USA, 8-10 Dec 1988. Silk, J.; Raffelt, G.; Salati, P.; Bouquet, A.