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Neutron Stars Exclude Light Dark Baryons

Neutron Stars Exclude Light Dark Baryons

Exotic particles carrying baryon number and with a mass of the order of the nucleon mass have been proposed for various reasons including baryogenesis, dark matter, mirror worlds, and the neutron lifetime puzzle. We show that the existence of neutron stars with a mass greater than 0.7 M_{⊙} places severe …