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We systematically study the observable properties of dark-matter admixed neutron stars, employing a realistic nuclear EOS in combination with self-interacting fermionic dark matter respecting constraints on the self-interaction cross…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-10-23 Hong-Ming Liu , Jin-Biao Wei , Zeng-Hua Li , G. F. Burgio , H. C. Das , H. -J. Schulze

The compact object with a mass of $2.50-2.67~M_\odot$ observed by LIGO Scientific and Virgo collaborations in GW190814, as well as the recent report of a light compact object with a mass and radius of $M=0.77^{+0.20}_{-0.17}M_{\odot}$ and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-12 Kaixuan Huang , Jinniu Hu

We investigate the possible presence of dark matter (DM) in massive and rotating neutron stars (NSs). For the purpose we extend our previous work [1] to introduce a light new physics vector mediator besides a scalar one in order to ensure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-22 Atanu Guha , Debashree Sen

We study the effects of dark matter on the properties of hybrid neutron stars, in particular the influence on the mass-radius relation, the value of the maximum mass, and the hadron-quark phase transition. To single out the equilibrium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-16 Jin-Biao Wei , G. Wu , H. Chen , G. F. Burgio , H. -J. Schulze

The recently developed nuclear effective interaction based on the so-called N3LO Skyrme pseudopotential is extended to include the hyperon-nucleon and hyperon-hyperon interactions by assuming the similar density, momentum, and isospin…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-24 Jun-Ting Ye , Rui Wang , Si-Pei Wang , Lie-Wen Chen

In this work, we explore the phenomenology of generalized dark matter (GDM) which interacts with photons ($\gamma$). We assume that DM establishes elastic scattering with $\gamma$ when it has already become nonrelativistic, otherwise the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Zhihuan Zhou , Gang Liu , Yuhao Mu , Lixin Xu

In this study, we investigate the impacts of dark matter (DM) on the properties of both static and rotating neutron stars utilizing a self-interacting DM model, motivated by the neutron decay anomaly. DM-admixed NSs are modeled by assuming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-15 Pinku Routaray , Abirbhav Chakrawarty , N. K. Patra , Bharat Kumar

By assuming that only gravitation acts between dark matter (DM) and normal matter (NM), we studied DM admixed neutron stars (DANSs) using the two-fluid TOV equations. The NM and DM of compact stars are simulated by the relativistic mean…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 X. D. Wang , B. Qi , N. B. Zhang , S. Y. Wang

We study possible effects of a dark matter (DM) core on the maximum mass of a neutron star (NS), on the mass-radius relation and on the NS tidal deformability parameter $\Lambda$. We show that all these quantities would in general be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-20 John Ellis , Gert Hütsi , Kristjan Kannike , Luca Marzola , Martti Raidal , Ville Vaskonen

An effective equation of state (EoS) which generalizes the Lattimer-Swesty equation for nuclear matter is presented for matter at supernuclear densities including strange baryons. It contains an adjustable baryon potential energy density,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Shmuel Balberg , Avraham Gal

To constrain the properties of dark matter (DM) that interacts with nucleons, we have conducted an experimental search for any anomalous heating of ordinary baryonic matter at 77 K. Our tabletop experiment is motivated by the possibility…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 David A. Neufeld , Daniel J. Brach-Neufeld

We investigate the equation of state (EOS) of hyperonic neutron star (NS) matter within a density-dependent relativistic mean-field (DDRMF) framework. The effects of scalar, vector, and mixed density dependencies in meson-baryon couplings…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-04 Aprajita Shrivastava , Prasanta Char , Sakshi Gautam , Sarmistha Banik

This work investigates the impact of dark matter (DM) on the microscopic and macroscopic properties of proto-neutron stars (PNSs). We employ a single-fluid framework in which DM interacts with ordinary matter (OM) via the Higgs portal and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-23 Adamu Issifu , Débora P. Menezes , Tobias Frederico

Recent measurement of mass of PSR J1614-2230 rules out most of existing models of equation of state (EOS) of dense matter with high-density softening due to hyperonization, based on the recent hyperon-nucleon and hyperon-hyperon…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-31 J. L. Zdunik , P. Haensel

The equation of state (EoS) and composition of dense and hot $\Delta$-resonance admixed hypernuclear matter is studied under conditions that are characteristic of neutron star binary merger remnants and supernovas. The cold, neutrino free…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-01 Armen Sedrakian , Arus Harutyunyan

We aim at contributing to the resolution of three of the fundamental puzzles related to the still unsolved problem of the structure of the dense core of compact stars (CS): (i) the hyperon puzzle: how to reconcile pulsar masses of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 David Blaschke , D. E. Alvarez-Castillo

We explore the presence of self-interacting bosonic dark matter (DM) within neutron stars (NSs) in light of the latest multi-messenger observations of the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) and LIGO/Virgo detectors. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-05 Soroush Shakeri , Davood Rafiei Karkevandi

In this work we show how the inclusion of dark matter (DM) direct detection upper bounds in a theoretically consistent manner can affect the allowed parameter space of a DM model. Traditionally, the limits from DM direct detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-14 Cristina Marcos , Miguel Peiro , Sandra Robles

Till today, the nature of Dark Matter (DM) remains elusive despite all our efforts. This missing matter of the universe has not been observed by the already operating DM direct-detection experiments, but we can infer its gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-10 M. Vikiaris , V. Petousis , M. Veselsky , Ch. C. Moustakidis

If dark matter (DM) accumulates inside neutron stars (NS), it changes their internal structure and causes a shift of the tidal deformability from the value predicted by the dense-matter equation of state (EOS). In principle, this shift…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-25 Hauke Koehn , Edoardo Giangrandi , Nina Kunert , Rahul Somasundaram , Violetta Sagun , Tim Dietrich