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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

Dark Matter (DM) models providing possible alternative solutions to the small- scale crisis of standard cosmology are nowadays of growing interest. We consider DM interacting with light hidden fermions via well motivated fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-07 Tobias Binder , Laura Covi , Ayuki Kamada , Hitoshi Murayama , Tomo Takahashi , Naoki Yoshida

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

In this work, we study dark matter (DM) admixed strange quark stars exploring the different possibilities about the nature of the DM and their effects on the macroscopic properties of strange stars, such as maximum masses, radii, as well…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-22 Luiz L. Lopes , H. C. Das

We generalize the formalism for DM capture in celestial bodies to account for arbitrary mediator mass, and update the existing and projected astrophysical constraints on DM-nucleon scattering cross section from observations of neutron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-14 Basudeb Dasgupta , Aritra Gupta , Anupam Ray

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 investigate the structural and observable impacts of dark matter (DM) on neutron stars using a combined equation of state that integrates the relativistic mean field (RMF) model for baryonic matter with a variable density profile for DM,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-14 Ankit Kumar , Hajime Sotani

The effects of dark matter (DM) on the curvatures of the neutron star (NS) are examined by using the stiff and soft relativistic mean-field equation of states. The curvatures of the NSs are calculated with the variation of baryon density.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-29 H. C. Das , Ankit Kumar , Bharat Kumar , S. K. Biswal , S. K. Patra

We investigate dark matter (DM) interactions via spectroscopic signatures of energy injection in planetary environments. We develop a general framework to account for how DM energy injection signals depend on the DM spatial distribution,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-05 Carlos Blanco , Rebecca K. Leane , Marianne Moore , Joshua Tong

The existence of Dark Matter (DM) is a well established fact since many decades, thanks to the observation of the effects of its gravitational interaction with the ordinary matter in the Universe. However, our knowledge of the Dark Matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-08 Alessandra Filippi , Marzio De Napoli

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

Considering ten well-known relativistic mean field models, we invoke feeble interaction between hadronic matter and fermionic dark matter (DM) $\chi$ via new physics scalar ($\phi$) and vector ($\xi$) mediators in neutron star core, thereby…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-11 Atanu Guha , Debashree Sen

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

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

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 examine the possibility that dark matter (DM) may be an ultralight scalar that was misaligned via non-minimal coupling to gravity, in the early Universe. For a certain regime of scalar masses, gravitational effects in neutron stars could…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-27 Hooman Davoudiasl

Galactic dark matter (DM) particles, having non-gravitational interactions with nucleons, can interact with stellar constituents and eventually become captured within stars. Over the lifetime of the celestial body, these non-annihilating,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-04 Sulagna Bhattacharya

We studied the rate at which stars capture dark matter (DM) particles, considering different assumptions regarding the DM characteristics and in particular investigating how the stellar physics influences the capture rate. Two scenarios…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Ilídio Lopes , Jordi Casanellas , Daniel Eugénio

We study the impact of symmetry energy ($S$), hyperons, and dark matter (DM) on structural and oscillatory properties of neutron stars (NSs). Uncertainty from hadronic equation of state for NSs is considered with 15 relativistic mean field…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Debashree Sen , Atanu Guha , Chang Ho Hyun

Neutron stars (NSs) provide a unique laboratory to probe dark matter (DM) through its gravitational imprint on stellar evolution. We use a two-fluid framework with non-annihilating, asymmetric DM, both fermionic and bosonic, that interacts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-16 Adamu Issifu , Prashant Thakur , Davood Rafiei Karkevandi , Franciele M. da Silva , Débora P. Menezes , Y. Lim , Tobias Frederico