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Neutrino processes in dense matter play a key role in the dynamics, deleptonization and early cooling of hot protoneutron stars formed in the gravitational collapse of massive stars. Here we calculate neutrino mean free paths from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Sanjay Reddy , Madappa Prakash

Compact stellar objects such as neutron stars (NS) are ideal places for capturing dark matter (DM) particles. We study the effect of self-interacting DM (SIDM) captured by nearby NS that can reheat it to an appreciated surface temperature…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-16 Chian-Shu Chen , Yen-Hsun Lin

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

Driven by the loss of energy, isolated rotating neutron stars (pulsars) are gradually slowing down to lower frequencies, which increases the tremendous compression of the matter inside of them. This increase in compression changes both the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Rodrigo Negreiros , Stefan Schramm , Fridolin Weber

The observed value of the muon magnetic dipole moment, which deviates from the Standard Model prediction by $4.2\sigma$, can be explained in models with weakly-interacting massive particles (WIMPs) coupled to muons. However, a considerable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-19 Koichi Hamaguchi , Natsumi Nagata , Maura E. Ramirez-Quezada

The hypothesis that neutrons might decay into dark matter is explored using neutron stars as a testing ground. It is found that in order to obtain stars with masses at the upper end of those observed, the dark matter must experience a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-26 Wasif Husain , Theo F. Motta , Anthony W. Thomas

Neutron stars harbour matter under extreme conditions, providing a unique testing ground for fundamental interactions. We recently developed an improved treatment of dark matter (DM) capture in neutron stars that properly incorporates many…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-30 Nicole F. Bell , Giorgio Busoni , Sandra Robles , Michael Virgato

We investigate the effects of dark matter (DM) on neutron star (NS) properties using the neutron decay anomaly model within the relativistic mean-field (RMF) framework. Three nucleonic models (HCD0-HCD2) are developed, satisfying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-15 H. C. Das , G. F. Burgio

Motivated by the various theoretical studies regarding the efficient capturing of dark matter by neutron stars, we explore the possible indirect effects of captured dark matter on the cooling mechanism of a neutron star. The equation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-05 Ankit Kumar , H. C. Das , S. K. Patra

We investigate the effect of feeble interaction of dark matter (DM) with hadronic matter on the equation of state (EoS) and structural properties of neutron stars (NSs) in static conditions. For the purpose we adopt the effective chiral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-08 Debashree Sen , Atanu Guha

The high densities of neutron stars (NSs) could provide astrophysical locations for dark matter (DM) to accumulate. Depending on the DM model, these DM admixed NSs (DANSs) could have significantly different properties than pure baryonic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-30 Shafayat Shawqi , Sharon M. Morsink

Young neutron stars cool via the emission of neutrinos from their core. A precise understanding of all the different processes producing neutrinos in the hot and degenerate matter is essential for assessing the cooling rate of such stars.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-02 Sabyasachi Chakraborty , Aritra Gupta , Miguel Vanvlasselaer

This paper investigates a hypothesis proposed in previous research relating neutron star (NS) mass and its dark matter (DM) accumulation. As DM accumulates, NS mass decreases, predicting lower NS masses toward the Galactic center. Due to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-11 Maksym Deliyergiyev , Antonino Del Popolo , Morgan Le Delliou

Modelling of crust heating and cooling across multiple accretion outbursts of the low mass X-ray binary MXB 1659-29 indicates that the neutrino luminosity of the neutron star core is consistent with direct Urca reactions occurring in $\sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-21 Melissa Mendes , Farrukh J. Fattoyev , Andrew Cumming , Charles Gale

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

We report recent results on the impact of asymmetric dark matter (DM) particles on low-mass stars. First, we found that the small convective core expected in stars with masses between 1.1 and 1.3 Msun is suppressed due to DM cooling.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Jordi Casanellas , Ilídio Lopes

Neutron Stars (NSs), among the densest objects in the Universe, are exceptional laboratories for investigating Dark Matter (DM) properties. Recent theoretical and observational developments have heightened interest in exploring the impact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Francesco Grippa , Gaetano Lambiase , Tanmay Kumar Poddar

Recent measurements of high-momentum correlated neutron-proton pairs at JLab suggest that the dense nucleonic component of the compact stars contains a fraction of high-momentum neutron-proton pairs that is not accounted for in the familiar…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-10-28 Armen Sedrakian

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

As a neutron star spins down, its core density increase, changing the relative equilibrium concentration, and causing deconfinement phase transition as well. hadron matter are converted into quark matter in the interior, which enhances the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 Wei Wei , Xiao-Ping Zheng