Publication Date:
2017-09-27
Description:
Author(s): Masha Baryakhtar, Joseph Bramante, Shirley Weishi Li, Tim Linden, and Nirmal Raj We identify a largely model-independent signature of dark matter (DM) interactions with nucleons and electrons. DM in the local galactic halo, gravitationally accelerated to over half the speed of light, scatters against and deposits kinetic energy into neutron stars, heating them to infrared blackb... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 131801] Published Tue Sep 26, 2017
Keywords:
Elementary Particles and Fields
Print ISSN:
0031-9007
Electronic ISSN:
1079-7114
Topics:
Physics