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Solar Extreme UV radiation and quark nugget dark matter model

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2017-11-08 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We advocate the idea that the surprising emission of extreme ultra violet (EUV) radiation and soft x-rays from the Sun are powered externally by incident dark matter (DM) particles. The energy and the spectral shape of this otherwise unexpected solar irradiation is estimated within the quark nugget dark matter model. This model was originally invented as a natural explanation of the observed ratio ΩdarkΩvisible\Omega_{\rm dark} \sim \Omega_{\rm visible} when the DM and visible matter densities assume the same order of magnitude values. This generic consequence of the model is a result of the common origin of both types of matter which are formed during the same QCD transition and both proportional to the same fundamental dimensional parameter ΛQCD\Lambda_{\rm QCD}. We also present arguments suggesting that the transient brightening-like "nano-flares" in the Sun may be related to the annihilation events which inevitably occur in the solar atmosphere within this dark matter scenario.

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@article{arxiv.1707.03400,
  title  = {Solar Extreme UV radiation and quark nugget dark matter model},
  author = {Ariel Zhitnitsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.03400},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

new section on nanoflares. matches the published version (JCAP)