Dark matter in compact stars

J Bramante, N Raj - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
WDs and neutron stars are far-reaching and multi-faceted laboratories in the hunt for dark
matter. We review detection prospects of wave-like, particulate, macroscopic and black hole …

Particle physics at the european spallation source

H Abele, A Alekou, A Algora, K Andersen, S Baeßler… - Physics reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Presently under construction in Lund, Sweden, the European Spallation Source (ESS) will
be the world's brightest neutron source. As such, it has the potential for a particle physics …

Mirror neutron stars

M Hippert, J Setford, H Tan, D Curtin… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
The fundamental nature of dark matter is entirely unknown. A compelling candidate is twin
Higgs mirror matter, invisible hidden-sector cousins of the Standard Model particles and …

Neutron stars with baryon number violation, probing dark sectors

JM Berryman, S Gardner, M Zakeri - Symmetry, 2022 - mdpi.com
The neutron lifetime anomaly has been used to motivate the introduction of new physics with
hidden-sector particles coupled to baryon number, and on which neutron stars provide …

Experimental search for neutron to mirror neutron oscillations as an explanation of the neutron lifetime anomaly

LJ Broussard, JL Barrow, L DeBeer-Schmitt, T Dennis… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
An unexplained> 4 σ discrepancy persists between “beam” and “bottle” measurements of
the neutron lifetime. A new model proposed that conversions of neutrons n into mirror …

Neutron star internal heating constraints on mirror matter

D McKeen, M Pospelov, N Raj - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
Mirror sectors have been proposed to address the problems of dark matter, baryogenesis,
and the neutron lifetime anomaly. In this work we study a new, powerful probe of mirror …

[HTML][HTML] Neutron-mirror neutron mixing and neutron stars

Z Berezhiani, R Biondi, M Mannarelli… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
The oscillation of neutron n into mirror neutron\(n'\), its mass degenerate partner from dark
mirror sector, can gradually transform the neutron stars into the mixed stars consisting in part …

Confronting strange stars with compact-star observations and new physics

S Yang, C Pi, X Zheng, F Weber - Universe, 2023 - mdpi.com
Strange stars ought to exist in the universe according to the strange quark matter hypothesis,
which states that matter made of roughly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks …

Cosmological and astrophysical probes of dark baryons

D McKeen, M Pospelov, N Raj - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We examine the cosmological and astrophysical signatures of a “dark baryon,” a neutral
fermion that mixes with the neutron. As the mixing is through a higher-dimensional operator …

Improved search for neutron to mirror-neutron oscillations in the presence of mirror magnetic fields with a dedicated apparatus at the PSI UCN source

NJ Ayres, Z Berezhiani, R Biondi, G Bison, K Bodek… - Symmetry, 2022 - mdpi.com
While the international nEDM collaboration at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) took data in
2017 that covered a considerable fraction of the parameter space of claimed potential …