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The observation of PeV neutrinos is an open window to study New Physics processes. Among all possible neutrino observables, the neutrino flavor composition can reveal underlying interactions during the neutrino propagation. We study the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-25 R. A. Lineros

A first order phase transition at high baryon density implies that a mixed phase can occupy a significant region of the interior of a neutron star. In this article we investigate the effect of a droplet phase on neutrino transport inside…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Sanjay Reddy , George Bertsch , Madappa Prakash

If dark matter has a sizable scattering cross section with nucleons, it can efficiently be captured by a neutron star. Its energy is then transferred to the neutron star as heat through the scattering and annihilation inside the star. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-11 Motoko Fujiwara , Koichi Hamaguchi , Natsumi Nagata , Jiaming Zheng

We perform an extensive analysis of neutrino diffusion in quark matter within the MIT bag model at arbitrary temperature and degeneracy. We examine in detail the contribution of each of the relevant weak interaction processes to the total…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Gustavo C. Colvero , Germán Lugones

We review recently developed models of galactic discrete sources of high energy neutrinos. Some of them are based on a simple rescaling of the TeV $\gamma$-ray fluxes from recently detected galactic sources, such as, shell-type supernova…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Bednarek , G. F. Burgio , T. Montaruli

In the presence of interactions between neutrinos and dark matter (DM), DM can potentially be produced via freeze-in from the neutrino sector. We investigate the implications of such a scenario for the evolution of both DM and neutrinos in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-02 Marco Hufnagel , Xun-Jie Xu

We propose new solutions to accommodate both the MiniBooNE electron-like and MicroBooNE photon low-energy excesses, based on interactions involving light dark matter and/or neutrinos. The novelty of our proposal lies in the utilization of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Bhaskar Dutta , Aparajitha Karthikeyan , Doojin Kim , Adrian Thompson , Richard G. Van de Water

The recent discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos and first hints of coincident electromagnetic and neutrino emission herald the beginning of the era of multi-messenger astronomy. Due to their high power, transient sources are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-02 Claire Guépin , Kumiko Kotera , Foteini Oikonomou

We consider the capture of dark matter (DM) in neutron stars via scattering on hadronic targets, including neutrons, protons and hyperons. We extend previous analyses by including momentum dependent form factors, which account for hadronic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-24 Filippo Anzuini , Nicole F. Bell , Giorgio Busoni , Theo F. Motta , Sandra Robles , Anthony W. Thomas , Michael Virgato

It has been suggested that the baseline scenario of collisionless cold dark matter over-predicts the numbers of satellite galaxies, as well as the dark matter (DM) densities in galactic centers. This apparent lack of structure at small…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-06 John F. Cherry , Alexander Friedland , Ian M. Shoemaker

If dark matter resides in a hidden sector minimally coupled to the Standard Model, another particle within the hidden sector might dominate the energy density of the early universe temporarily, causing an early matter-dominated era (EMDE).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-18 Himanish Ganjoo , Adrienne L. Erickcek , Weikang Lin , Katherine J. Mack

Dark matter particles will be captured in neutron stars if they undergo scattering interactions with nucleons or leptons. These collisions transfer the dark matter kinetic energy to the star, resulting in appreciable heating that is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-02 Nicole F. Bell , Giorgio Busoni , Sandra Robles

If cold dark matter is present at the galactic center, as in current models of the dark halo, it is accreted by the central black hole into a dense spike. Particle dark matter then annihilates strongly inside the spike, making it a compact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo Gondolo , Joseph Silk

We study the influence of the temperature-dependent interaction between dark matter (DM) and neutrinos on the measurement of cosmological parameters. We pay attention to the neutrino mass effects, so that the derivation of Boltzmann…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-23 Ren-Peng Zhou , Da Huang

Annihilation radiation from supersymmetric particles at the Galactic center could be greatly enhanced if the dark matter density is peaked around the supermassive black hole. Arguments for and against the existence of density spikes are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 David Merritt

Any dark matter spikes surrounding black holes in our Galaxy are sites of significant dark matter annihilation, leading to a potentially detectable neutrino signal. In this paper we examine $10-10^5 M_\odot$ black holes associated with dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-12 Katherine Freese , Irina Galstyan , Pearl Sandick , Patrick Stengel

Stars that orbit too close to a black hole can be ripped apart by strong tides, producing a type of luminous transient event called a ``tidal disruption event" (TDE). Tidal disruption events of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-20 Brenna Mockler , Erica Hammerstein , Eric R. Coughlin , Matt Nicholl

New effects of nontrivial neutrino electromagnetic properties are investigated on the basis of exact solutions of the modified Dirac equations for neutrinos in dense magnetized rotating matter. The effect of spatial separation of different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-11 Alexander Studenikin , Ilya Tokarev

We have presented a review of the properties of neutrinos and their interactions with matter. The different (anti)neutrino processes like the quasielastic scattering, inelastic production of mesons and hyperons, and the deep inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-13 M. Sajjad Athar , A. Fatima , S. K. Singh

The regions around massive black holes can show X-ray variability on timescales from seconds to decades. Observing many black holes over different timescales can enhance our chances of detecting variability coming from (partial) tidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-24 Natalie A. Webb , Vincent Foustoul , Robbie Webbe , Matteo Bachetti , Erwan Quintin , Laurent Michel