Baryonic Q-balls as dark matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
Supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of Q-balls, some of which can be entirely stable. Affleck-Dine baryogenesis can result in a copious production of stable baryonic Q-balls, which can presently exist as a form of dark matter.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0009089,
title = {Baryonic Q-balls as dark matter},
author = {Alexander Kusenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0009089},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, 4 figures; invited talk at 3rd International Conference on Dark Matter in Astro and Particle Physics (Dark 2000), Heidelberg, Germany, 10-16 Jul 2000