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A new and inexpensive technique for detecting self interacting dark matter in the form of small grains in bulk matter is proposed. Depending on the interactions with ordinary matter, dark matter grains in bulk matter may be isolated by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Mitra , R. Foot

It is shown that the vacuum condensate induced by many phenomena behaves as a perfect fluid which, under particular conditions, has zero or negative pressure. In particular, the condensates of thermal states, of fields in curved space and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-28 Antonio Capolupo

We address the question of regular primordial black holes with de Sitter interior, their remnants and gravitational vacuum solitons G-lumps as heavy dark matter candidates providing signatures for inhomogeneity of early universe, which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-07 Irina Dymnikova , Maxim Khlopov

In the vicinity of the Milky Way Galactic Center, celestial bodies, including neutron stars, reside within a dense dark matter environment. This study explores the accumulation of dark matter by neutron stars through dark matter-nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-02 Thong T. Q. Nguyen

The evolution of old, compact stellar structures provides strong constraints on macroscopic dark matter candidates such as primordial black holes. In view of recent observational data for the Eridanus II dwarf galaxy, we perform the first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Julia Monika Koulen , Stefano Profumo , Nolan Smyth

The search for dark matter has been performed mainly for weakly interacting massive particles and massive compact halo objects, and the intermediate mass region has not been investigated experimentally. A method to search dark matter with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-23 Akio Kawasaki

Even though there are strong astrophysical and cosmological indications to support the existence of dark matter, its exact nature remains unknown. We expect dark matter to produce standard model particles when annihilating or decaying,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-24 Nadège Iovine , Juan A. Aguilar

Current evidence for dark matter in the universe does not exclude heavy composite nuclear-density objects consisting of bound quarks or antiquarks over a significant range of masses. Here we analyze one such proposed scenario, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Peter. W. Gorham

Numerous lines of evidence indicate that the matter content of the Universe is dominated by some unseen component. Determining the nature of this Dark Matter is one of the most important problems in cosmology. Weakly Interacting Massive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nader Mirabolfathi

The coalescence of close binary systems with two compact objects (neutron stars and black holes) are considered to be promising sources of gravitational waves for the currently built laser interferometers. Here, I review the current…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vassiliki Kalogera

Observational evidence for dark matter can be explained by Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). These dark matter particle candidates could indirectly be detected through the observation of signals produced as part of WIMP…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Carsten Rott

Neutron stars capture dark matter efficiently. The kinetic energy transferred during capture heats old neutron stars in the local galactic halo to temperatures detectable by upcoming infrared telescopes. We derive the sensitivity of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-21 Nirmal Raj , Philip Tanedo , Hai-Bo Yu

Cosmological and astrophysical observations provide increasing evidence of the existence of dark matter in our Universe. Dark matter particles with a mass above a few GeV can be captured by the Sun, accumulate in the core, annihilate, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-25 Chitta R. Das , Olga Mena , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Silvia Pascoli

We study the cooling of isolated dark-matter-admixed neutron stars, employing a realistic nuclear equation of state and realistic nuclear pairing gaps, together with fermionic dark matter of variable particle mass and dark-matter fraction.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-30 B. X. Zhou , H. C. Das , J. B. Wei , G. F. Burgio , Z. H. Li , H. -J. Schulze

Massive neutrinos were the first proposed, and remain the most natural, particle candidate for the dark matter. In the absence of firm laboratory evidence for neutrino mass, considerations of the formation of large scale structure in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-16 Subir Sarkar

Gravitational lensing observations of galaxy clusters have identified dark matter ``blobs'' with remarkably low baryonic content. We use such a system to probe the particle nature of dark matter with X-ray observations. We also study high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Signe Riemer-Sorensen , Kristian Pedersen , Steen H. Hansen , Haakon Dahle

If multiple thermal weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter candidates exist, then their capture and annihilation dynamics inside a massive stars such as Sun could change from conventional method of study. With a simple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-25 Amit Dutta Banik

It is shown that weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), which are possible cold dark matter candidates, can be studied by exclusive measurements of X-rays following WIMPs nuclear interactions. Inner-shell atomic electrons are ionized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 H. Ejiri , Ch. C. Moustakidis , J. D. Vergados

The precision era of multi-messenger astronomy, together with modern astrophysical, cosmological, and gravitational wave observations, increasingly points toward the existence of a ``dark" sector that cannot be explained within the…

This paper gives an overview of the properties of all possible equilibrium sequences of compact strange-matter stars with nuclear crusts, which range from strange stars to strange dwarfs. In contrast to their non-strange counterparts,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Weber , Ch. Schaab , M. K. Weigel , N. K. Glendenning