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The Antarctic Impulse Transient Antenna (\textsc{ANITA}) collaboration [1-3] has reported two anomalous events with noninverted polarity. These events are hard to explain in terms of conventional cosmic rays (CRs). We explore a new possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-27 Xunyu Liang , Ariel Zhitnitsky

Telescope Array (TA) experiment has recorded \cite{Abbasi:2017rvx,Okuda_2019} several short time bursts of air shower like events. These bursts are very distinct from conventional single showers, and are found to be strongly correlated with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-18 Ariel Zhitnitsky

We study the new mechanism of the axion production suggested recently in [1,2]. This mechanism is based on the so-called Axion Quark Nugget (AQN) dark matter model, which was originally invented to explain the similarity of the dark and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Xunyu Liang , Alexander Mead , Md Shahriar Rahim Siddiqui , Ludovic Van Waerbeke , Ariel Zhitnitsky

We review a testable, the axion quark nugget (AQN) model outside of the standard WIMP paradigm. The model was originally invented to explain the observed similarity between the dark and the visible components, $\Omega_{\rm DM}\approx…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-25 Ariel Zhitnitsky

It has been recently argued [1-3] that there is a strong component of the diffuse far-ultraviolet (FUV) background which is hard to explain by conventional physics in terms of the dust-scattered starlight. We propose that this excess in FUV…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-17 Ariel Zhitnitsky

The Pierre Auger Observatory have reported [1-3] observation of several exotic cosmic ray -like events which apparently related to thunderstorms. These events are much larger in size than conventional cosmic ray events, and they have very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-25 Ariel Zhitnitsky

Macroscopic dark matter with dominating strong interactions, supposed to be composites, represents an alternative to the most popular WIMP particles. Predicted in various models as strangelets, nuclearites, nuggets, having different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-01 Ionel Lazanu , Konstantin Zioutas

We advocate an idea that the presence of the daily and annual modulations of the axion flux on the Earth surface may dramatically change the strategy of the axion searches. Our computations are based on the so-called Axion Quark Nugget…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 Dmitry Budker , Victor V. Flambaum , Xunyu Liang , Ariel Zhitnitsky

We advocate an idea that ``non-baryonic" dark matter in form of nuggets made of standard model quarks and gluons (similar to the old idea of the Witten's strangelets) could play a crucial role in structure formation. The corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-22 Ariel Zhitnitsky

Anti-quark nuggets (AQNs) have been suggested to solve the dark matter (DM) and the missing antimatter problem in the universe and have been proposed as an explanation of various observations. Their size is in the {\mu}m range and their…

Axion quark nuggets (AQNs) are hypothetical objects with nuclear density that would have formed during the quark-hadron transition and could make up most of the dark matter today. These objects have a mass greater than a few grams and are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Michael Sekatchev , Xunyu Liang , Fereshteh Majidi , Ben Scully , Ludovic Van Waerbeke , Ariel Zhitnitsky

It has been recently argued in \cite{Bertolucci:2016xjm, Zioutas:2020ndf, Zioutas:2023ybw} that numerous enigmatic observations remain challenging to explain within the framework of conventional physics. These anomalies include unexpected…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-23 Ariel Zhitnitsky , Marios Maroudas

Axion quark nuggets (AQNs) are macroscopic dark-matter candidates, with masses of the order of a few grams to a kilogram and sub-micron radius, thought to form at the Quantum Chromo Dynamic era through axion-induced charge separation. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Fereshteh Majidi , Xunyu Liang , Michael Sekatchev , Ludovic Van Waerbeke , Ariel Zhitnitsky

It has been known for quite sometime that the Neutron Stars (NS) can play a role of the Dark Matter (DM) detectors due to many uniques features of NS. We apply these (previously developed) ideas to a specific form of the DM when it is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-18 Ariel Zhitnitsky

The axion anti-quark nugget (A$\bar{\mathrm{Q}}$N) model was developed to explain in a natural way the asymmetry between matter and antimatter in Universe. In this hypothesis, a similitude between the dark and the visible components exists.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-10 Ionel Lazanu , Mihaela Parvu

Ball lighting (BL) has been observed for centuries. There are large number of books, review articles, and original scientific papers devoted to different aspects of BL phenomenon. Yet, the basic features of this phenomenon have never been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-26 Ariel Zhitnitsky

The DAMA/LIBRA experiment shows $9.5 \sigma$ evidence for an annual modulation in the $(1-6)~ {\rm keV}$ energy range, strongly suggesting that the observed modulation has the dark matter origin. However, the conventional interpretation in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-22 Ariel Zhitnitsky

We advocate the idea that the nanoflares conjectured by Parker long ago to resolve the corona heating problem, may also trigger the larger solar flares. The arguments are based on the model where emission of extreme ultra violet (EUV)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-17 Ariel Zhitnitsky

We consider the formation and evolution of Axion Quark Nugget dark matter particles in the early universe. The goal of this work is to estimate the mass distribution of these objects and assess their ability to form and survive to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-03 Shuailiang Ge , Kyle Lawson , Ariel Zhitnitsky

We review a testable dark matter (DM) model outside of the standard WIMP paradigm. The model is unique in a sense that the observed ratio $\Omega_{\rm dark} \simeq \Omega_{\rm visible}$ for visible and dark matter densities finds its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Ariel Zhitnitsky
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