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We conduct a systematic investigation of the influence of the nuclear symmetry energy on the proposed neutron decay into dark matter particles within the cores of neutron stars. Unlike the majority of previous studies that considered only…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-01 M. Divaris , Ch. C. Moustakidis

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

We argue that observations of old neutron stars can impose constraints on dark matter candidates even with very small elastic or inelastic cross section, and self-annihilation cross section. We find that old neutron stars close to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Chris Kouvaris , Peter Tinyakov

The presence of dark matter has been ascertained through a wealth of astrophysical and cosmological phenomena and its nature is a central puzzle in modern science. Elementary particles stand as the most compelling explanation. They have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Daniel A. Camargo , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Riccardo Sturani

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

Recent observations of neutron star masses close to the maximum predicted by nucleonic equations of state begin to challenge our understanding of dense matter in neutron stars, and constrain the possible presence of quark matter in their…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gordon Baym

The Spin Light of neutrino ($SL\nu$) is an electromagnetic radiation of the neutrino magnetic moment emitted when neutrino moves in external conditions (fields or matter). The effect can be of significance in the extremely dense matter of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-09 Alexander Grigoriev , Alexei Ternov

The study of neutron stars is a topic of central interest in the investigation of the properties of strongly compressed hadronic matter. Whereas in heavy-ion collisions the fireball, created in the collision zone, contains very hot matter,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Schramm , V. Dexheimer , R. Negreiros , T. Schürhoff , J. Steinheimer

The influence of the core polarization on the effective nuclear interaction of asymmetric nuclear matter is calculated in the framework of the induced interaction theory. The strong isospin dependence of the density and spin density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 S. S. Zhang , L. G. Cao , U. Lombardo , P. Schuck

Recent observational results for the masses and radii of some neutron stars are in contrast with typical observations and theoretical predictions for "normal" neutron stars. We propose that their unusual properties can be interpreted as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-27 Paolo Ciarcelluti , Fredrik Sandin

The maximum mass of a neutron star is generally determined by the equation of state of the star material. In this study, we take into account dark matter particles, assumed to behave like fermions with a free parameter to account for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-21 Ang Li , Feng Huang , Ren-Xin Xu

We explore the multi-scatter capturing of the massive dark matter (DM) particle inside the neutron star via a momentum-dependent dark matter-nucleon scattering cross-section. We find that the capturing enhanced for the positive velocity and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-02 Ning Liu , Arvind Kumar Mishra

We find that a class of models of MeV-GeV dark matter in which dark matter interacts strongly can be constrained by the observation of gravitational waves from neutron star mergers. Trace amounts of dark matter, either produced during the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-10 Ann Nelson , Sanjay Reddy , Dake Zhou

Neutron stars provide a natural laboratory for studying the properties of dense nuclear matter under extreme conditions. In this proceeding, we review our current understanding of dense isospin symmetric and asymmetric matter and neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-01 Rajesh Kumar , Veronica Dexheimer , Johannes Jahan

We calculate the number of dark matter particles that a neutron star accumulates over its lifetime as it rotates around the center of a galaxy, when the dark matter particle is a self-interacting boson but does not self-annihilate. We take…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Tolga Guver , Arif Emre Erkoca , Mary Hall Reno , Ina Sarcevic

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…

Dark matter (DM) remains one of the most significant open questions in modern physics, with its nature and interactions largely unexplored. In this study, we investigate the behavior of massive fermionic DM particles in the context of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-18 Jianyuan Luo , Dicong Liang , Lijing Shao

Neutron stars are some of the densest manifestations of massive objects in the universe. They are ideal astrophysical laboratories for testing theories of dense matter physics and provide connections among nuclear physics, particle physics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 J. M. Lattimer , M. Prakash

We study an impact of asymmetric dark matter on properties of the neutron stars and their ability to reach the two solar masses limit, which allows us to present a new range of masses of dark matter particles and their fractions inside the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 O. Ivanytskyi , V. Sagun , I. Lopes

Neutron stars provide a cosmic laboratory to study the nature of dark matter particles and their interactions. Dark matter can be captured by neutron stars via scattering, where kinetic energy is transferred to the star. This can have a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-17 Nicole F. Bell , Giorgio Busoni , Sandra Robles , Michael Virgato