A Quark-Matter Dominated Universe
Astrophysics
2009-09-25 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We present a new scenario for the development of the Universe after the Big Bang, built on the conjecture that a vast majority of the primordial quark matter did not undergo a phase transition to normal nuclear matter, but rather split up into massive quark objects that remained stable. Hence, such primordial quark matter would make up the so-called dark matter. We discuss, mostly in qualitative terms, the consequences for galaxy formation, the origin of normal matter, the occurrence of massive black-holes in galactic centres and the cosmic gamma-ray bursts.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9802236,
title = {A Quark-Matter Dominated Universe},
author = {D. Enstrom and S. Fredriksson and J. Hansson and A. Nicolaidis and S. Ekelin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9802236},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
32 pages Latex, 3 postscipt figures