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Dark matter or regular matter in neutron stars? How to tell the difference from the coalescence of compact objects

Dark matter or regular matter in neutron stars? How to tell the difference from the coalescence of compact objects

The mirror twin Higgs model is a candidate for (strongly-interacting) complex dark matter, which mirrors SM interactions with heavier quark masses. A consequence of this model are mirror neutron stars -- exotic stars made entirely of mirror matter, which are significantly smaller than neutron stars and electromagnetically dark. This makes …