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 …

The first three seconds: a review of possible expansion histories of the early universe

R Allahverdi, MA Amin, A Berlin, N Bernal… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
It is commonly assumed that the energy density of the Universe was dominated by radiation
between reheating after inflation and the onset of matter domination 54,000 years later …

Non-cold dark matter from primordial black hole evaporation

I Baldes, Q Decant, DC Hooper… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Dark matter coupled solely gravitationally can be produced through the decay of primordial
black holes in the early universe. If the dark matter is lighter than the initial black hole …

Scattering searches for dark matter in subhalos: neutron stars, cosmic rays, and old rocks

J Bramante, BJ Kavanagh, N Raj - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
In many cosmologies dark matter clusters on subkiloparsec scales and forms compact
subhalos, in which the majority of Galactic dark matter could reside. Null results in direct …

Pulsar timing probes of primordial black holes and subhalos

JA Dror, H Ramani, T Trickle, KM Zurek - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
Pulsars act as accurate clocks, sensitive to gravitational redshift and acceleration induced by
transiting clumps of matter. We study the sensitivity of pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) to single …

Observability of dark matter substructure with pulsar timing correlations

H Ramani, T Trickle, KM Zurek - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Dark matter substructure on small scales is currently weakly constrained, and its study may
shed light on the nature of the dark matter. In this work we study the gravitational effects of …

Gravitational microlensing by dark matter in extended structures

D Croon, D McKeen, N Raj - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Dark matter may be in the form of nonbaryonic structures such as compact subhalos and
boson stars. Structures weighing between asteroid and solar masses may be discovered via …

Primordial gravitational wave signals in modified cosmologies

N Bernal, A Ghoshal, F Hajkarim… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Modified expansion rates in the early Universe prior to big bang nucleosynthesis are
common in modified gravity theories, and can have a significant impact on the generation of …

Neutrino portal to FIMP dark matter with an early matter era

C Cosme, M Dutra, T Ma, Y Wu, L Yang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We study the freeze-in production of Feebly Interacting Massive Particle (FIMP)
dark matter candidates through a neutrino portal. We consider a hidden sector comprised of …

Dark Grand Unification in the axiverse: decaying axion dark matter and spontaneous baryogenesis

JW Foster, S Kumar, BR Safdi, Y Soreq - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract The quantum chromodynamics axion with a decay constant near the Grand
Unification (GUT) scale has an ultralight mass near a neV. We show, however, that axion …