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Dark matter may accumulate in neutron stars given its gravitational interaction and abundance. We investigate the influence of strongly-interacting dark matter, described by a QCD-like one-flavor $G_2$ gauge theory, on neutron stars. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-08 Yannick Dengler , Suchita Kulkarni , Axel Maas , Kevin Radl

The impact of energy exchange among the relevant fluid components: baryonic matter, fermionic dark matter (DM), and dark energy (DE) on the internal structure of neutron stars is investigated. Using a representative DM mass $m_{\chi} = 10$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 L. F. Araujo , G. Lugones , J. A. S. Lima

In this work we study a relativistic mean-field (RMF) hadronic model, with nucleonic short-range correlations (SRC) included, coupled to dark matter (DM) through the Higgs boson. We study different parametrizations of this model by running…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-11-30 M. Dutra , C. H. Lenzi , O. Lourenço

The properties of a neutron star are studied in the presence of dark matter. We have considered a relatively light Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) as a dark matter candidate with properties suggested by the results of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Abdul Quddus , Grigorios Panotopoulos , Bharat Kumar , Shakeb Ahmad , S. K. Patra

Observations have indicated that we do not see neutron stars (NS) of mass near the theoretical upper limit as predicted. Here we invoke the role of dark matter (DM) particles in star formation, and their role in lowering the mass of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-26 Sandeep Kumar S , Kenath Arun , C Sivaram

The formulation of quarkyonic matter consists of treating both quarks and nucleons as quasi-particles, where a cross-over transition occurs between the two phases. This work is based upon some of the early ideas of quark matter. It can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-07 D. Dey , Jeet Amrit Pattnaik , H. C. Das , A. Kumar , R. N. Panda , S. K. Patra

In recent years, researchers have become increasingly interested in understanding how dark matter affects neutron stars, helping them to better understand complex astrophysical phenomena. In this paper, we delve deeper into this problem by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-17 Prashant Thakur , Tuhin Malik , T. K. Jha

Recent gravitational-wave (GW) observations offer a unique opportunity to probe the fundamental nature of compact objects. A growing body of research has focused on exploring the role of dark matter (DM) through the concept of DM-admixed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-18 Rafael M. Santos , Rafael C. Nunes , Jaziel G. Coelho , Jose C. N. de Araujo

The tidal properties of a neutron star are measurable in the gravitational waves emitted from inspiraling binary neutron stars, and they have been used to constrain the neutron star equation of state. In the same spirit, we study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-07 Kwing-Lam Leung , Ming-Chung Chu , Lap-Ming Lin

We consider gravitationally bound states of asymmetric dark matter (ADM stars), and the impact of ADM capture on the stability of neutron stars. We derive and interpret the equation of state for ADM with both attractive and repulsive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Moira I. Gresham , Kathryn M. Zurek

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

We study how many-body effects alter the dark matter (DM) thermalization time inside neutron stars. We find that Pauli blocking, kinematic constraints, and superfluidity and superconductivity in the neutron star significantly affect the DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Bridget Bertoni , Ann E. Nelson , Sanjay Reddy

We consider the effect of density dependent dark matter on the neutron star mass, radius, and tidal deformability. Nuclear matter (normal matter) as well as the fermionic dark matter sector is considered in a mean field model. We adopt the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-04 Arpan Das , Tuhin Malik , Alekha C. Nayak

Within the relativistic mean-field model, we investigate the properties of dark matter (DM) admixed neutron stars, considering non-rotating objects made of isotropic matter. We adopt the IOPB-I hadronic equation of state (EOS) by assuming…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-26 Pinku Routray , H. C. Das , Souhardya Sen , Bharat Kumar , Grigoris Panotopoulos , Tianqi Zhao

We studied the properties of dark matter admixed-neutron stars (DMANS), considering fermionic dark matter (DM) that interacts gravitationally with hadronic matter (HM). Using relativistic mean-field equations of state (EoSs) for both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Payaswinee Arvikar , Sakshi Gautam , Anagh Venneti , Sarmistha Banik

Compact stellar objects are promising cosmic laboratories to test the nature of dark matter (DM). DM captured by the strong gravitational field of these stellar remnants transfers kinetic energy to the star during the collision. This can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-07 Sandra Robles

In this study, the impact of neutron decay into dark matter and various dark matter self-interaction strengths on neutron star properties have been explored. Using the quark-meson coupling (QMC) model for nucleon-only equations of state…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-05 Wasif Husain

Because of their extreme densities and consequently, gravitational potential, compact objects such as neutron stars can prove to be excellent captors of dark matter particles. Considering purely gravitational interactions between dark and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-22 Pratik Thakur , Anil Kumar , Vivek Baruah Thapa , Vishal Parmar , Monika Sinha

We study the effect of asymmetric fermionic dark matter (DM) on the thermal evolution of neutron stars (NSs). No interaction between DM and baryonic matter is assumed, except the gravitational one. Using the two-fluid formalism, we show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-08 Afonso Ávila , Edoardo Giangrandi , Violetta Sagun , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , Constança Providência

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