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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 106, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.055031
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Funding
- JSPS [JP20J12392]
- JSPS Core-to-Core Program [JPJSCCA20200002]
- NSF of China [11675086, 11835005]
- [19H05810]
- [19H05802]
- [18H05542]
- [20H01897]
- [21K13916]
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This paper investigates a new method of detecting dark matter through temperature observations of neutron stars. The study finds that for electroweak multiplet dark matter, this approach can reach parameter regions beyond the reach of future direct detection experiments.
If dark matter has a sizable scattering cross section with nucleons, it can efficiently be captured by a neutron star. Its energy is then transferred to the neutron star as heat through the scattering and annihilation inside the star. This heating effect may be detectable via dedicated temperature observations of nearby old pulsars, providing an alternative method for dark matter searches. In this paper, we show that for electroweak multiplet dark matter, this search strategy can probe the parameter region which is out of reach of future dark matter direct detection experiments. To see this systematically, we classify such dark matter candidates in terms of their electroweak charges and investigate the effect of ultraviolet physics by means of higher-dimensional effective operators. We then show that if the effect of ultraviolet physics is sizable, the dark matter-nucleon elastic scattering cross section becomes sufficiently large, whilst if it is suppressed, then the mass splittings among the components of the dark matter multiplet get small enough so that the inelastic scattering processes are operative. In any case, the electroweak multiplet dark matter particles are efficiently captured in neutron stars, making the search strategy with the temperature observation of old neutron stars promising.
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