Inelastic Dark Matter As An Efficient Fuel For Compact Stars

Details Inelastic Dark Matter As An Efficient Fuel For Compact Stars Inelastic Dark Matter As An Efficient Fuel For Compact Stars

2010-01-29

arxiv.org/abs/1002.0005v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

6 pages, 2 figure

Scientific paper

Dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles is predicted to become gravitationally captured and accumulate in stars. While the subsequent annihilations of such particles lead to the injection of energy into stellar cores, elastically scattering dark matter particles do not generally yield enough energy to observably impact stellar phenomenology. Dark matter particles which scatter inelastically with nuclei (such that they reconcile the annual modulation reported by DAMA with the null results of CDMS and other experiments), however, can be captured by and annihilate in compact stars at a much higher rate. As a result, old white dwarf stars residing in high dark matter density environments can be prevented from cooling below several thousand degrees Kelvin. Observations of old, cool white dwarfs in dwarf spheroidal galaxies, or in the inner kiloparsec of the Milky Way, can thus potentially provide a valuable test of the inelastic dark matter hypothesis.

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