Neutron Stars with Baryon Number Violation, Probing Dark Sectors

Jeffrey M. Berryman; Susan Gardner; Mohammadreza Zakeri

doi:10.3390/sym14030518

Neutron Stars with Baryon Number Violation, Probing Dark Sectors

Jeffrey M. Berryman, Susan Gardner, Mohammadreza Zakeri

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Abstract

The neutron lifetime anomaly has been used to motivate the introduction of new physics with hidden-sector particles coupled to baryon number, and on which neutron stars provide powerful constraints. Although the neutron lifetime anomaly may eventually prove to be of mundane origin, we use it as motivation for a broader review of the ways that baryon number violation, be it real or apparent, and dark sectors can intertwine and how neutron star observables, both present and future, can constrain them.

Original language	English
Article number	518
Journal	Symmetry
Volume	14
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14030518
State	Published - Mar 2022

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Funding

Funding: J.M.B. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation, Grant PHY-1630782, and the Heising-Simons Foundation, Grant 2017-228. S.G. and M.Z. acknowledge partial support from the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-FG02-96ER40989.

Funders	Funder number
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program	PHY-1630782
U.S. Department of Energy EPSCoR	DE-FG02-96ER40989
Heising-Simons Foundation	2017-228

Keywords

baryon number
dark matter
neutron lifetime anomaly
neutron stars

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Computer Science (miscellaneous)
Chemistry (miscellaneous)
General Mathematics
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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