Is Dark Matter made up of Massive Quark Objects?
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We suggest that dark matter is made up of massive quark objects that have survived from the Big Bang, representing the ground state of ``baryonic'' matter. Hence, there was no overall phase transition of the original quark matter, but only a split-up into smaller objects. We speculate that normal hadronic matter comes about through enforced phase transitions when such objects merge or collide, which also gives rise to the cosmic gamma-ray bursts.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9810389,
title = {Is Dark Matter made up of Massive Quark Objects?},
author = {S. Fredriksson and D. Enstrom and J. Hansson and S. Ekelin and A. Nicolaidis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9810389},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages Latex, no figures; to be published in the Proceedings of Dark '98, Heidelberg, July 1998