Compact Stars as Portals to Extra-Dimensional Dark Matter

arXiv:2512.14837 · hep-ph, astro-ph.HE, hep-ex · Submitted 2026-08-19 · Read on arXiv

Raghuveer Garani, Chris Kouvaris, Michel H. G. Tytgat, Jérôme Vandecasteele

hep-ph, astro-ph.HE, hep-ex

Submitted: 2026-08-19

Updated: 2026-08-20

Terminology

• Degeneracy — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Equation of State (EoS) — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Absorption Cross Section — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Velocity Dispersion — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Constraining Asymmetric Dark Matter through observations of compact stars
• Excluding Light Asymmetric Bosonic Dark Matter
• Limits on Self-Interacting Dark Matter
• Constraints on Scalar Asymmetric Dark Matter from Black Hole Formation in Neutron Stars
• Realistic neutron star constraints on bosonic asymmetric dark matter
• Constraints on Bosonic Dark Matter From Observations of Old Neutron Stars
• Bounds on self-interacting fermion dark matter from observations of old neutron stars
• Searching for Dark Matter with Neutron Star Mergers and Quiet Kilonovae
• New Analysis of Neutron Star Constraints on Asymmetric Dark Matter
• Low Mass Black Holes from Dark Core Collapse
• Astroparticle physics with compact objects
• Solar mass black holes from neutron stars and bosonic dark matter
• Dark matter in compact stars
• Can LIGO Detect Non-Annihilating Dark Matter?
• Cosmology of self-replicating universes in black holes formed by dark matter-seeded stellar collapse
• From Capture to Collapse: Revisiting Black Hole formation by Fermionic Asymmetric Dark Matter in Neutron Stars
• Dark Matter Thermalization in Neutron Stars
• Observing the thermalization of dark matter in neutron stars
• Thermalization and Annihilation of Dark Matter in Neutron Stars
• The Hierarchy Problem and New Dimensions at a Millimeter

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