English
Related papers

Related papers: Implications of Neutron Star Properties for the Ex…

200 papers

We study different stages of the neutron star cooling by computing neutron star properties at various temperatures and entropies using an effective chiral model including hadronic and quark degrees of freedom. Macroscopic properties of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 V. Dexheimer , S. Schramm

Two of the most fundamental properties of the dark matter particle, the mass and the lifetime, are only weakly constrained by the astronomical and cosmological evidence of dark matter. We derive in this paper lower limits on the lifetime of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Arman Esmaili , Alejandro Ibarra , Orlando L. G. Peres

The past years have witnessed tremendous progress in understanding the properties of neutron stars and of the dense matter in their cores, made possible by electromagnetic observations of neutron stars and the detection of gravitational…

The precise value of the neutron lifetime is of fundamental importance to particle physics and cosmology. The neutron lifetime recently obtained, 878.5 +/- 0.7stat +/- 0.3sys s, is the most accurate one to date. The new result for the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 A. P. Serebrov

Neutron stars are associated with diverse physical phenomena that take place in conditions characterized by ultrahigh densities as well as intense gravitational, magnetic, and radiation fields. Understanding the properties and interactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Feryal Ozel

We study the implications of asymmetric dark matter on neutron stars. we construct a "mixed neutron star" model composed of ordinary baryons and of asymmetric dark matter baryons. We derive the general relativistic structure equations for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-08 Itzhak Goldman

The extreme conditions in Neutron Stars make them ideal test facilities for fundamental interactions. A Neutron Star can capture Dark Matter via scattering. As a result of the scattering, Dark Matter kinetic energy is transferred to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-21 Giorgio Busoni

We outline two important effects that are missing from most evaluations of the dark matter capture rate in neutron stars. As dark matter scattering with nucleons in the star involves large momentum transfer, nucleon structure must be taken…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-05 Nicole F. Bell , Giorgio Busoni , Theo F. Motta , Sandra Robles , Anthony W. Thomas , Michael Virgato

A review is focused on experimental measurements on neutron lifetime. The latest measurements with a gravitational trap (PNPI NRC KI) and a magnetic trap (LANL, USA) confirmed PNPI result of 2005. The results of measurements with storage of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-02-20 A. P. Serebrov , R. M. Samoilov , I. A. Mitropolsky , A. M. Gagarsky

The effects of dark matter (DM) on the curvatures of the neutron star (NS) are examined by using the stiff and soft relativistic mean-field equation of states. The curvatures of the NSs are calculated with the variation of baryon density.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-29 H. C. Das , Ankit Kumar , Bharat Kumar , S. K. Biswal , S. K. Patra

Neutron stars are valuable laboratories for the study of dense matter. Recent observations have uncovered both massive and low-mass neutron stars and have also set constraints on neutron star radii. The largest mass measurements are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-16 James M. Lattimer

Neutron stars represent unique laboratories, offering insights into the physics of supranuclear-density matter and serving as potential hosts for dark matter. This study explores the impact of dark matter cores on rapidly rotating neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-03 Andreas Konstantinou

If strange matter is absolutely stable, the ordinary nuclei decay to strangelets, while neutron stars convert into strange stars. Lifetimes of the ordinary nuclei are constrained experimentally to be above $\sim 10^{33}$ years, while…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-05 M. I. Krivoruchenko , B. V. Martemyanov

Dark matter, one of the important portion of the universe, could affect the visible matter in neutron stars. An important physical feature of dark matter is due to the spin of dark matter particles. Here, applying the piecewise polytropic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-19 Zeinab Rezaei

In this short paper, we argue the issue on dark matter capture in neutron stars. After summarizing the whole scenario and the introduction of previous studies along this line, we propose some potentially important effects due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-23 Motoi Tachibana , Marco Ruggieri

Neutron matter is an intriguing nuclear system with multiple connections to other areas of physics. Considerable progress has been made over the last two decades in exploring the properties of pure neutron fluids. Here we begin by reviewing…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-27 Stefano Gandolfi , Alexandros Gezerlis , J. Carlson

We study the dark matter effects on the nuclear matter parameters characterising the equation of states of super dense neutron-rich nucleonic-matter. The observables of the nuclear matter, i.e. incompressibility, symmetry energy and its…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-29 H. C. Das , Ankit Kumar , Bharat Kumar , S. K. Biswal , Takashi Nakatsukasa , Ang Li , S. K. Patra

Neutron stars have long been regarded as extra-terrestrial laboratories from which we can learn about extreme energy density matter at low temperatures. In this article, I highlight some of the recent advances made in astrophysical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Madappa Prakash

We focus on a novel baryon-number ($\mathcal{B}$) violating process within neutron stars, where two neutrons convert into two dark photons ($nn \rightarrow VV$) via new Higgs-like scalar bosons. This process is believed to be greatly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Yongliang Hao , Zhenwei Chen

Millisecond pulsars, representing the older neutron star population, are believed to have undergone a prolonged period of dark matter accumulation, resulting in a higher dark matter content. Their extreme rotation makes them unique…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-27 Lorenzo Cipriani , Edoardo Giangrandi , Violetta Sagun , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev