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The nature of dark matter (DM) is one of the most relevant questions in modern astrophysics. We present a brief overview of recent results that inquire into a possible fermionic quantum nature of the DM particles, focusing mainly on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-28 C. R. Argüelles , E. A. Becerra-Vergara , J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini

The stability of dark matter is normally achieved by imposing extra symmetries beyond those of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. In this paper we present a framework where the dark matter stability emerges as a consequence of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-17 Oscar Cata , Alejandro Ibarra

We study a two-component dark matter model consisting of a Dirac fermion and a complex scalar charged under new U(1) gauge group in the hidden sector. The dark fermion plays the dominant component of dark matter which explains the measured…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-20 Yeong Gyun Kim , Kang Young Lee , Soo-hyeon Nam

We present a novel candidate for cold dark matter consisting of condensed Cooper pairs in a theory of interacting fermions with broken chiral symmetry. Establishing the thermal history from the early radiation era to the present, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Guanming Liang

Indirect searches for dark matter (DM) have conventionally been applied to the products of DM annihilation or decay. If DM couples to light force carriers, however, it can be captured into bound states via dissipation of energy that may…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-11 Iason Baldes , Francesca Calore , Kalliopi Petraki , Vincent Poireau , Nicholas L. Rodd

We calculate the size distribution of quark nuggets, which could be formed due to first order QCD phase transition in the early universe. We find that there are a large number of stable Quark Nuggets which could be a viable candidate for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Jan-e Alam , Sourav Sarkar , Pradip Roy , Bikash Sinha , Sibaji Raha , Pijushpani Bhattacharjee

A new mechanism of black hole formation in a first order phase transition is proposed. In vacuum bubble collisions the interaction of bubble walls leads to the formation of nontrivial vacuum configuration. The consequent collapse of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-15 M. Yu. Khlopov , R. V. Konoplich , S. G. Rubin , A. S. Sakharov

We discuss a novel cold dark matter candidate which is formed from the ordinary quarks during the QCD phase transition when the axion domain wall undergoes an unchecked collapse due to the tension in the wall. If a large number of quarks is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

A mechanism is identified whereby dark matter (DM) in protostellar halos dramatically alters the current theoretical framework for the formation of the first stars. Heat from neutralino DM annihilation is shown to overwhelm any cooling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Douglas Spolyar , Katherine Freese , Paolo Gondolo

In a previous paper (Ref. [1]) the presence of dark energy in our universe was explained as the fingerprint of a comprehensive, much older and expanding multiverse with positive spatial curvature, whose space-time is spanned by this energy,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-06 Rebhan Eckhard

Based on the results from numerous astrophysics experiments, it is currently believed that the majority of matter in the Universe is in some unknown form, known as dark matter. In the past it has been common to model dark matter as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-25 Chris Bird

Dark matter (DM) which constitutes five-sixths of all matter is hypothesised to be a weakly interacting non-baryonic particle, created in the early stages of cosmic evolution. It can affect various cosmic structures in the Universe via…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-10 Clea Sunny , Arun Kenath , C Sivaram , S B Gudennavar

The nature of dark matter remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in elementary particle physics. It might well be that the dark matter particle belongs to a dark sector completely secluded or extremely weakly coupled to the visible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-28 Nelleke Bunji , Bartosz Fornal , Kassandra Garcia

Dark matter (DM) in protostellar halos can dramatically alter the current theoretical framework for the formation of the first stars. Heat from supersymmetric DM annihilation can overwhelm any cooling mechanism, consequently impeding the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Katherine Freese , Paolo Gondolo , Douglas Spolyar

We have proposed that the first phase of stellar evolution in the history of the Universe may be Dark Stars (DS), powered by dark matter heating rather than by nuclear fusion, and in this paper we examine the history of these DS. The power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Douglas Spolyar , Peter Bodenheimer , Katherine Freese , Palo Gondolo

For intermediate Coulomb energy to Fermi energy ratios $r_s$, spinless fermions in a random potential form a new quantum phase which is different from the Fermi glass and the Wigner crystal. From a numerical study of small clusters, we show…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Giuliano Benenti , Xavier Waintal , Jean-Louis Pichard

The nonbaryonic dark matter of the Universe can consist of new stable charged leptons and quarks, if they are hidden in elusive "dark atoms" of composite dark matter. Such possibility can be compatible with the severe constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Maxim Yu. Khlopov

We investigate an extension of the Standard Model (SM) with two candidates for dark matter (DM). One of them is a real scalar field and the other is an Abelian gauge field. Except for these two, there is another beyond SM field which has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-04 Ahmad Mohamadnejad

The baryon asymmetry, together with a dark matter asymmetry, may be produced during a first order phase transition in a generative sector. We study the possibility of a gravitational wave signal in a model realising such a scenario. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-18 Iason Baldes

The addition of extra scalars to the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics enriches the vacuum structure and consequently gives rise to strong first-order phase transitions (EWPT) in the early universe. We raise the question that how the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Soudeh Mirzaie , Karim Ghorbani , Parsa Ghorbani