TY  - JOUR
AU  - Iocco, F.
AU  - Taoso, M.
AU  - Leclercq, F.
AU  - Meynet, G.
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2012//
TI  - Main Sequence Stars with Asymmetric Dark Matter
T2  - Phys. Rev. Lett.
JO  - Physical Review Letters
SP  - 061301
EP  - 5pp
VL  - 108
IS  - 6
PB  - Amer Physical Soc
AB  - We study the effects of feebly or nonannihilating weakly interacting dark matter (DM) particles on stars that live in DM environments denser than that of our Sun. We find that the energy transport mechanism induced by DM particles can produce unusual conditions in the cores of main sequence stars, with effects which can potentially be used to probe DM properties. We find that solar mass stars placed in DM densities of rho(chi) >= 10(2) GeV/cm(3) are sensitive to spin-dependent scattering cross section sigma(SD) >= 10(-37) cm(2) and a DM particle mass as low as m(chi) = 5 GeV, accessing a parameter range weakly constrained by current direct detection experiments.
SN  - 0031-9007
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.5387
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.061301
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.061301
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000300099700003
ID  - Iocco_etal2012
ER  -