English

Capt'n General: A generalized stellar dark matter capture and heat transport code

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-05-17 v1

Abstract

Capt'n General is a FORTRAN90 standalone package that can be used to compute the capture and heat transport of dark matter in stars. It can compute capture rates for constant, velocity and momentum-dependent DM-nucleon elastic scattering cross sections, as well as non-relativistic effective operator interactions. Capt'n General can be interfaced with the GAMBIT global fitting codebase as well as stellar evolution simulation codes such as MESA.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2105.06810,
  title  = {Capt'n General: A generalized stellar dark matter capture and heat transport code},
  author = {Neal Avis Kozar and Ashlee Caddell and Luke Fraser-Leach and Pat Scott and Aaron C. Vincent},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.06810},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

9 pages, 2 figures. Loosely based on a talk presented at TOOLS2020. Code available at: https://github.com/aaronvincent/captngen

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