Speaker
Nirmal Raj
(Indian Institute of Science)
Description
I show that the decay, self-annihilation or nucleonic scatters of dark matter can trigger phase transitions from a hadronic to a quark/hybrid phase in neutron stars. For certain high-density equations of state of nuclear matter and stellar mass-radius configurations, the phase transition would convert the neutron star to a black hole. Consequently, the observed existence of neutron stars and rates of gamma ray bursts set some of the most stringent limits on the microscopic properties of dark matter.
Author
Nirmal Raj
(Indian Institute of Science)
Co-authors
Mr
Aryaman Bhutani
(Indian Institute of Science)
Ms
Zenia Zuraiq
(Indian Institute of Science)