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In the light of the recently observed XENON1T electronic recoil (ER) data, we investigate the possibility of constraining the parameter space of a generic fermionic warm dark matter (WDM), decaying into a standard model (SM) neutrino and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-05 Koushik Dutta , Avirup Ghosh , Arpan Kar , Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya

The equation of state (EoS) for neutron stars is a crucial topic in astrophysics, nuclear physics, and quantum chromodynamics (QCD), influencing their structure, stability, and observable properties. This review classifies EoS models into…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-08 Zuhua Ji , Jiarui Chen , Yan Chen

Context. The presence of dark matter in neutron stars is of growing interest due to its potential impact on the structure and observable properties of these objects. Among the various candidates, the hypothetical sexaquark has emerged as a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-18 Mahboubeh Shahrbaf , Davood Rafiei Karkevandi , Alexander Ayriyan , Stefan Typel

We investigate the impact of dark matter on neutron star properties using the relativistic mean-field theory. By incorporating the dark matter model, we explore how dark matter parameters, specifically dark matter mass and Fermi momentum,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-29 Ankit Kumar , Hajime Sotani

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 propose a dark-matter (DM) admixed density-dependent equation of state where the fermionic DM interacts with the nucleons via Higgs portal. Presence of DM can hardly influence the particle distribution inside neutron star (NS) but can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 Sajad A. Bhat , Avik Paul

Because of the development of many-body theories of nuclear matter, the long-standing, open problem of the equation of state (EOS) of dense matter may be understood in the near future through the confrontation of theoretical calculations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 A. Li , Z. -Y. Zhu , E. -P. Zhou , J. -M. Dong , J. -N. Hu , C. -J. Xia

Mixed fermion-boson stars are stable, horizonless, everywhere regular solutions of the coupled Einstein-(complex, massive) Klein-Gordon-Euler system. While isolated neutron stars and boson stars are uniquely determined by their central…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-14 Fabrizio Di Giovanni , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Pablo Cerdá-Durán , José Antonio Font

In this work the relativistic mean field (RMF) FSUGold model extended to include hyperons is employed to study the properties of neutron stars with strong magnetic fields. The chaotic magnetic field approximation is utilized. The effect of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-27 Fei Wu , Chen Wu , Zhongzhou Ren

A new scheme for testing the nuclear matter (NM) equation of state (EoS) at high densities using constraints from compact star (CS) phenomenology is applied to neutron stars with a core of deconfined quark matter (QM). An acceptable EoS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Grigorian , D. Blaschke , T. Klaehn

The observations of optical and near-infrared counterparts of binary neutron star mergers not only enrich our knowledge about the abundance of heavy elements in the Universe, or help reveal the remnant object just after the merger as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-09 Zhenyu Zhu , Ang Li , Tong Liu

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

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are excellent systems to probe the nature of fermionic dark matter due to their high observed dark matter phase-space density. In this work, we review, revise and improve upon previous phase-space considerations to…

The detection of gravitational waves from the merger of binary neutron stars events (GW170817, GW190425) and subsequent estimations of tidal deformability play a key role in constraining the behaviour of dense matter. In addition, massive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-11 Vivek Baruah Thapa , Anil Kumar , Monika Sinha

In this work we present a common framework for neutrino mass and dark matter. Specifically, we work with a local $\mathcal{B-L}$ extension of the standard model which has three right-handed neutrinos, $n_{R_{i}}$, and some extra scalars,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-23 B. L. Sánchez-Vega , E. R. Schmitz

In this work, we perform the first systematic investigation of effects of the presence of dark matter on $r$-mode oscillations in neutron stars (NSs). Using a self-interacting dark matter (DM) model based on the neutron decay anomaly and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-15 Swarnim Shirke , Suprovo Ghosh , Debarati Chatterjee , Laura Sagunski , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

The precision measurements of the muon magnetic moment and the $W$ boson mass have sparked interest in the potential deviations from standard model (SM) predictions. While it may be premature to attribute any excesses in these precision…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-05 Yi-Zhong Fan , Yao-Yu Li , Chih-Ting Lu , Xiao-Yi Luo , Tian-Peng Tang , Van Que Tran , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) is among the most suitable candidates to replace WIMPs and to resolve the puzzling mystery of dark matter. A galactic dark matter halo made of these ultralight bosonic particles leads to the formation of a solitonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-19 Gabriel d'Andrade Furlanetto , Riccardo Della Monica , Ivan De Martino

We investigate properties of nuclear matter, equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars and its mass-radius relation in a hard-wall AdS/QCD model by regarding baryons as solitonic configurations in gauge fields. Compared with previous…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-07 Jun-Shuai Wang , Li-Kang Yang , Yin-Fang Liu , Yong-Liang Ma

Neutron star observations, including direct mass and radius measurements as well as the analysis of gravitational wave signals emitted by stellar mergers, provide valuable and unique insights into the properties of strongly interacting…

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