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The observations combined with theory of neutron star (NS) cooling play a crucial role in achieving the intriguing information of the stellar interior, such as the equation of state (EOS), composition and superfluidity of dense matter. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-09-12 J. M. Dong , L. J. Wang , W. Zuo

The symmetry energy of nucleonic matter is usually assumed to be quadratic in the isospin density. While this may be justified at sub-saturation densities, there is no need to enforce this restriction at super-saturation densities. The…

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Dark matter (DM) continues to evade direct detection, but neutron stars (NSs) serve as natural laboratories where even a modest DM component can alter their structure. While many studies have examined DM effects on NSs, they often rely on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-20 Xue-Zhi Liu , Premachand Mahapatra , Chun Huang , Ayush Hazarika , Chiranjeeb Singha , Prasanta Kumar Das

An ambitious goal of the astrophysical community is not only to constrain the equation of state (EOS) of neutron star (NS) matter by confronting it with astrophysics observations, but ultimately also to infer the NS composition.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-09 Tuhin Malik , B. K. Agrawal , Constança Providência

A detailed description of the baryon direct Urca processes A: $n\rightarrow p+e+\bar{\nu}_{e}$, B: $\Lambda\rightarrow p+e+\bar{\nu}_{e}$, C: $\Xi^{-}\rightarrow\Lambda+e+\bar{\nu}_{e}$ related to the neutron star cooling is given in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-03 Yan Xu , Xiu Lin Huang , Xiao Jun Zhang , Tmurbagan Bao , Lin Xiao , Cun Bo Fan , Cheng Zhi Liu

We investigate hydrostatic configurations of asymmetric dark matter (DM) spheres in scenarios where fermionic DM can propagate into extra spatial dimensions, while Standard Model fields remain confined to ordinary three dimensions. As the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-18 Raghuveer Garani , Chris Kouvaris , Michel H. G. Tytgat , Jérôme Vandecasteele

In this work we apply relativistic mean-field theory in neutron stars assuming that fermionic dark matter is trapped inside the star and interacts directly with neutrons by exchanging Standard Model Higgs bosons. For realistic values of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-25 Grigoris Panotopoulos , Ilidio Lopes

We show that the direct Urca process of neutrino emission is allowed in two possible phases of nonspherical nuclei (inverse cylinders and inverse spheres) in the mantle of a neutron star near the crust-core interface. The process is open…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. E. Gusakov , D. G. Yakovlev , P. Haensel , O. Y. Gnedin

Dark matter (DM) which constitutes five-sixths of all matter is hypothesised to be a weakly interacting non-baryonic particle, created in the early stages of cosmic evolution. It can affect various cosmic structures in the Universe via…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-10 Clea Sunny , Arun Kenath , C Sivaram , S B Gudennavar

The neutrino emissivities resulting from direct URCA processes in neutron stars are calculated in a relativistic Dirac-Hartree approach in presence of a magnetic field. In a quark or a hyperon matter environment, the emissivity due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Debades Bandyopadhyay , Somenath Chakrabarty , Prantick Dey , Subrata Pal

It is conceivable that a bosonic dark matter (DM) with non-gravitational interactions with SM particles will be accumulated at the center of a neutron star (NS) and can lead to black hole formation. In contrast to previous works with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-24 Koushik Dutta , Deep Ghosh , Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya

We have studied the dark matter (DM) distribution in a approx 10^12 h^-1 M_sun mass halo extracted from a simulation consistent with the concordance cosmology, where the physics regulating the transformation of gas into stars was allowed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Susana E. Pedrosa , Patricia B. Tissera , Cecilia Scannapieco

Neutron stars (NSs) provide exceptional laboratories for probing dark matter (DM) interactions beyond the reach of terrestrial experiments. We investigate a scenario in which DM couples to electrons and muons through a…

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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

The core of a neutron star contains several species of particles, whose relative equilibrium concentrations are determined by the local density. As the star spins down, its centrifugal force decreases continuously, and the star contracts.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Andreas Reisenegger

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

As neutron stars spin-down and contract, the deconfinement phase transition can continue to occur, resulting in energy release(so-called deconfinement heating) in case of the first-order phase transition. The thermal evolution of neutron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 Kang Miao , Wang Xiao-dong , Zheng Xiao-ping

We study the impact of heavy dark matter (DM) captured in massive stars via scattering(s) with the star constituents. We focus on the first stars and use stellar evolution simulations to track down how DM capture evolves over time from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Sandra Robles , Walter Tangarife , Giorgio Busoni

The cooling of neutron stars (hereafter NS) has the potential to reveal important features of superdense matter. Their surface temperatures are known for a fair sample of NS with ages $\leq 10^{6} \, {\it{yr}}$, and with a few exceptions,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 F. Köpp , J. E. Horvath , D. Hadjimichef , C. A. Z. Vasconcellos , P. O. Hess

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