Quark Nuggets as Baryonic Dark Matter
Astrophysics
2011-02-11 v1
Abstract
The cosmic first order phase transition from quarks to hadrons, occurring a few microseconds after the Big Bang, would lead to the formation of quark nuggets which would be stable on a cosmological time scale, if the associated baryon number is larger than a critical value. We examine the possibility that these surviving quark nuggets may not only be viable candidates for cold dark matter but even close the universe.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9704226,
title = {Quark Nuggets as Baryonic Dark Matter},
author = {Jan-e Alam and Sibaji Raha and Bikash Sinha},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9704226},
year = {2011}
}
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