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Description
An important component that can significantly affect the description of astrophysical and cosmological systems is dark matter, whose fundamental nature remains not fully understood. Observations indicate that approximately 27% of the Universe consists of dark matter, 68% of dark energy—the dominant component responsible for the Universe’s accelerated expansion—and only 5% of luminous matter. Recently, several studies have explored the coupling of dark matter to hadronic and/or quark models with the aim of describing astrophysical systems such as compact
stars. In this talk, we present the effects of incorporating dark matter into relativistic mean-field hadronic models, as well as into a specific effective quark model in which the constituent quark masses are treated as density-dependent functions, thereby accounting for in-medium effects.
