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We study an impact of self-interacting bosonic dark matter (DM) on various observable properties of neutron stars (NSs). The analysis is performed for asymmetric DM with masses from few MeV to GeV, the self-coupling constant of order…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Davood Rafiei Karkevandi , Soroush Shakeri , Violetta Sagun , Oleksii Ivanytskyi

{We present a study of neutron star models that contain dark matter (DM) in the core. The DM is assumed to have a particle nature and to be self-interacting. Using constraints on the mass and radius of neutron stars, we investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Wasif Husain , Anthony W. Thomas

We investigate the impact of dark matter on neutron star properties using the relativistic mean-field theory. By incorporating the dark matter model, we explore how dark matter parameters, specifically dark matter mass and Fermi momentum,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-29 Ankit Kumar , Hajime Sotani

In this study, we investigate the impact of dark matter (DM) on neutron stars (NSs) using a two-fluid formalism that treats nuclear matter (NM) and DM as gravitationally coupled components. Employing NM equations of state spanning a wide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-13 Ankit Kumar , Sudhakantha Girmohanta , Hajime Sotani

In the present work we investigate the effects of dark matter (DM) on hybrid star properties. We assume that dark matter is mixed with both hadronic and quark matter and interact with them through the exchange of a Higgs boson. The hybrid…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-04 César H. Lenzi , Mariana Dutra , Odilon Lourenço , Luiz L. Lopes , Débora P. Menezes

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

The presence of Dark matter (DM) within a neutron star (NS) can substantially influence the macroscopic properties. It is commonly assumed that the pressure inside an NS is isotropic, but in reality, pressure is locally anisotropic. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-12 Premachand Mahapatra , Chiranjeeb Singha , Ayush Hazarika , Prasanta Kumar Das

We investigate the impact of asymmetric fermionic dark matter (DM) on the thermal evolution of neutron stars (NSs), considering a scenario where DM interacts with baryonic matter (BM) through gravity. Employing the two-fluid formalism, our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-15 Edoardo Giangrandi , Afonso Ávila , Violetta Sagun , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , Constança Providência

The fundamental character of a fermionic dark matter, whether it is a Dirac or Majorana particle remains a key unresolved issue whose answer would profoundly affect dark-sector phenomenology and detection strategies thereby motivates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-11 M. Bhuyan , Jeet Amrit Pattnaik , S. K. Patra , Sudhanwa Patra

Due to their extreme density and low temperature, neutron stars (NS) are efficient probes to unveil interactions between standard model and dark matter (DM) particles. From elastic scatterings on NS material, DM can get gravitationally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-28 Raghuveer Garani , Yoann Genolini , Thomas Hambye

A relativistic mean field hadronic model with a dark matter (DM) particle coupled to nucleons including short-range correlations (SRC) is applied to study neutron stars (NS). The lightest neutralino is chosen as the dark particle candidate,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-31 O. Lourenço , T. Frederico , M. Dutra

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

We study an impact of asymmetric fermionic dark matter on neutron star properties, including tidal deformability, mass, radius, etc. We present the conditions at which dark matter particles tend to form a compact structure in a core of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-29 V. Sagun , E. Giangrandi , O. Ivanytskyi , I. Lopes , K. A. Bugaev

The strong gravitational pull of the neutron star leads to the accretion of dark matter (DM) inside the core of the neutron star. The accretion of DM affects the bulk properties of the neutron star. Here, we study how the accretion of WIMP…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Rashmita Jena , Padmalaya Dash , S. K. Biswal

Compact astrophysical objects, such as neutron stars, can provide a unique environment where the interplay between strongly interacting nuclear matter and dark matter (DM) can yield possible observable signatures. We investigate here the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-07 Deepak Kumar , Ranjita K. Mohapatra , Hiranmaya Mishra , Sudhanwa Patra

Dark Matter constitutes most of the matter in the presently accepted cosmological model for our Universe. The extreme conditions of ordinary baryonic matter, namely high density and compactness, in Neutron Stars make these objects suitable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-20 M. Cermeño , M. Ángeles Pérez-García , Joseph Silk

This thesis investigates the impact of dark matter on neutron star properties, focusing on mass, radius, and tidal deformability. Using two-fluid and single-fluid models, dark matter is incorporated into the equation of state (EOS) via a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 Prashant Thakur

We study the impact of asymmetric bosonic dark matter on neutron star properties, including possible changes of tidal deformability, maximum mass, radius, and matter distribution inside the star. The conditions at which dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-11 Violetta Sagun , Edoardo Giangrandi , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , Costança Providência , Tim Dietrich

For the first time, we analyze the impact of dark matter (DM) on the curvature properties of quarkyonic neutron stars (NS) using a hybrid model based on quarkyonic-effective field theory within the relativistic mean-field (E-RMF) framework.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-22 Jeet Amrit Pattnaik , D. Dey , R. N. Panda , M. Bhuyan , S. K. Patra

We investigate the impact of dark matter (DM) on hybrid and twin stars within a two-fluid framework, where DM and normal matter interact only through gravity. A self-interacting fermionic DM model is considered, while for the nuclear and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 H. C. Das