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Relativistic capture of dark matter by electrons in neutron stars
Aniket Joglekar, Nirmal Raj, Philip Tanedo +1
Dark matter can capture in neutron stars and heat them to observable luminosities. We study relativistic scattering of dark matter on highly degenerate electrons. We develop a Lore…
Warming Nuclear Pasta with Dark Matter: Kinetic and Annihilation Heating of Neutron Star Crusts
Javier F. Acevedo, Joseph Bramante, Rebecca K. Leane +1
Neutron stars serve as excellent next-generation thermal detectors of dark matter, heated by the scattering and annihilation of dark matter accelerated to relativistic speeds in th…
Dark matter astrometry at underground detectors with multiscatter events
Joseph Bramante, Jason Kumar, Nirmal Raj
We show that current and imminent underground detectors are capable of precision astrometry of dark matter. First we show that galactic dark matter velocity distributions can be ob…
Neutrinos from Type Ia and failed core-collapse supernovae at dark matter detectors
Nirmal Raj
Neutrinos produced in the hot and dense interior of the next galactic supernova would be visible at dark matter experiments in coherent elastic nuclear recoils. While studies on th…
Pre-Supernova Neutrinos in Large Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments
Nirmal Raj, Volodymyr Takhistov, Samuel J. Witte
The next Galactic core-collapse supernova (SN) is a highly anticipated observational target for neutrino telescopes. However, even prior to collapse, massive dying stars shine copi…