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Radiation from cold molecular clouds and Sun chromosphere produced by anti-quark nugget dark matter

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2024-11-18 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Solar and Stellar Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study astrophysical implications of the quark nugget model of dark matter and propose observational techniques for detecting anti-Quark Nuggets (anti-QNs) with modern telescopes. Anti-QNs are compact composite objects of antiquark matter with a typical radius R105R\sim 10^{-5} cm and density exceeding that of nuclear matter. Atoms and molecules of interstellar medium collide with anti-quark nuggets and annihilate. We estimate thermal radiation from anti-QNs in cold molecular clouds in our galaxy and show that this radiation appears sufficiently strong to be observed in infrared and visible spectra. Proton annihilation on anti-QNs produces γ\gamma-photons with energies in the range 100-400 MeV which may be detected by telescopes such as Fermi-LAT. We have found that anti-QN radiation inside the solar corona is too weak to produce a significant plasma heating or any other observable effects, while the radiation of γ\gamma-photons from the chromosphere may be observable. We also address the problem of survival of anti-quark nuggets in the early universe.

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@article{arxiv.2203.14459,
  title  = {Radiation from cold molecular clouds and Sun chromosphere produced by anti-quark nugget dark matter},
  author = {V. V. Flambaum and I. B. Samsonov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.14459},
  year   = {2024}
}

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14 pages, 4 figures