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Higgs gravity and White Dwarfs

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Robert Caldwell

  • The nearest white dwarf is Sirius B, shown as the dim dot below and left of center, companion of the brightest star in the night sky. [Image Credit: NASA, ESA, H. Bond (STScI) and M. Barstow (University of Leicester)]

     

Dartmouth Professor Gary Wegner and Visiting Professor Roberto Onofrio have shown, in a recent article appearing in the Astrophysical Journal, how observations of white dwarfs can be used to learn about novel gravitational physics of the newly-discovered Higgs boson. Read the phys.org article here.