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Universe, Volume 6, Issue 12

December 2020 - 25 articles

Cover Story: Neutron stars change their structure with accumulation of dark matter. We study how their mass is influenced by the environment. Close to the sun, dark matter accretion from the neutron star does not have any effect on it. Moving towards the galactic center, the density increase in dark matter results in increased accretion. At distances of some fraction of a parsec, the neutron star acquires enough dark matter to have its structure changed. We show that the neutron star mass decreases going towards the galactic centre, and that dark matter accumulation beyond a critical value collapses the neutron star into a black hole. Calculations cover cases varying the dark matter particle mass, self-interaction strength, and ratio between the pressure of dark matter and ordinary matter. View this paper.
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Articles (25)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,224 Views
13 Pages

Dark Matter as Gravitational Solitons in the Weak Field Limit

  • Torsten Asselmeyer-Maluga and
  • Jerzy Król

9 December 2020

In this paper, we will describe the idea that dark matter partly consists of gravitational solitons (gravisolitons). The corresponding solution is valid for weak gravitational fields (weak field limit) with respect to a background metric. The stabili...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,041 Views
19 Pages

Present Status of Nuclear Shell-Model Calculations of 0νββ Decay Matrix Elements

  • Luigi Coraggio,
  • Nunzio Itaco,
  • Giovanni De Gregorio,
  • Angela Gargano,
  • Riccardo Mancino and
  • Saori Pastore

7 December 2020

Neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay searches are currently among the major foci of experimental physics. The observation of such a decay will have important implications in our understanding of the intrinsic nature of neutrinos and she...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,281 Views
9 Pages

4 December 2020

The stage of a super-early (primordial) scale-invariant Universe is considered on the basis of the Poincaré–Weyl gauge theory of gravity in a Cartan–Weyl space-time. An approximate solution has been found that demonstrates an infla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,362 Views
16 Pages

4 December 2020

Motivated by the recent discoveries of compact objects from LIGO/Virgo observations, we study the possibility of identifying some of these objects as compact stars made of dark matter called dark stars, or the mix of dark and nuclear matters called h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,490 Views
19 Pages

3 December 2020

We revisit acceleration-induced nonlocal electrodynamics and the phenomenon of photon spin-rotation coupling. The kernel of the theory for the electromagnetic field tensor involves parity violation under the assumption of linearity of the field kerne...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,991 Views
9 Pages

30 November 2020

We suggest two new scenarios of high-energy particle collisions in the background of a wormhole. In scenario 1, the novelty consists of the fact that the effect does not require two particles coming from different mouths. Instead, all such scenarios...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2,304 Views
3 Pages

Post-Editorial of the Special Issue “Wormholes in Space-Time: Theory and Facts”

  • Francisco S. N. Lobo,
  • Gonzalo J. Olmo and
  • Diego Rubiera-Garcia

30 November 2020

Wormholes made their first appearance in gravitational physics as soon as in 1916 but, as with their black hole cousins, it took a long time and effort for their true nature to be properly understood [...]

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