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First-order phase transitions can leave relic pockets of false vacua and their particles, that manifest as macroscopic Dark Matter. We compute one predictive model: a gauge theory with a dark quark relic heavier than the confinement scale.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-05 Christian Gross , Giacomo Landini , Alessandro Strumia , Daniele Teresi

The universe is composed of ordinary matter (for example, stars, planets, ourselves), dark matter and dark energy. The estimated percentage of dark matter is about $27\%$ of the entire universe, while $5\%$ is ordinary matter and the…

Popular Physics · Physics 2023-06-05 Alessandra Celletti

Strange stars ought to exist in the universe according to the strange quark matter hypothesis, which states that matter made of roughly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks could be the true ground state of baryonic matter rather…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-20 Shu-Hua Yang , Chun-Mei Pi , Xiao-Ping Zheng , Fridolin Weber

Reasons supporting the idea that most of the dark matter in galaxies and clusters of galaxies is baryonic is discussed. Moreover it is argued that most of the dark matter in galactic halo should be in the form of MACHOs and cold molecular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. De Paolis , G. Ingrosso , Ph. Jetzer , M. Roncadelli

A component of the dark matter could consist of two darkly charged particles with a large mass ratio and a massless force carrier. This `atomic' dark sector could behave much like the baryonic sector, cooling and fragmenting down to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-04 Akshay Ghalsasi , Matthew McQuinn

Recent measurements of cosmic-ray electron and positron fluxes by PAMELA and ATIC experiments may indicate the existence of annihilating dark matter with large annihilation cross section. We show that the dark matter annihilation in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 Junji Hisano , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kazunori Kohri , Takeo Moroi , Kazunori Nakayama

The origin of the galaxies represents an important focus of current cosmological research, both observational and theoretical. Its resolution involves a comprehensive understanding of star formation, galaxy dynamics, the cosmology of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joseph Silk

About 80 percent of the matter content of the universe is dark matter. However, the particle origin of dark matter is yet to be established. Many extensions of the Standard Model (SM) contain candidates of dark matter. The search for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-26 Bhaskar Dutta

Baryonic matter in the core of a massive and evolved star is compressed significantly to form a supra-nuclear object, and compressed baryonic matter (CBM) is then produced after supernova. The state of cold matter at a few nuclear density…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-23 Yanjun Guo , Renxin Xu

Dark matter could be composed of macroscopic objects with large masses and geometric cross-sections spanning many decades. We investigate the potential interaction of such `stuff-sized' dark matter by considering its interactions with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-22 Zachary S. C. Picker

Dark matter in the universe seems to be one of the most important puzzles science has to face in this moment. In this essay we point out that dark matter could be a spin-0 fundamental interaction of Nature rather than a simple particle.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 T. Matos , L. A. Urena-Lopez

If the preon structure of quarks, leptons and gauge bosons will be proved then in the Universe during relativistic phase transition the production of nonperturbative preon condensates has been occured collective excitations of which are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 V. Burdyuzha , O. Lalakulich , Yu. Ponomarev , G. Vereshkov

Progress in observational cosmology over the past five years has established that the Universe is dominated dynamically by dark matter and dark energy. Both these new and apparently independent forms of matter-energy have properties that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Overduin , P. S. Wesson

For the first time, we have a plausible, complete accounting of matter and energy in the Universe. Expressed a fraction of the critical density it goes like this: neutrinos, between 0.3% and 15%; stars, 0.5%; baryons (total), 5%; matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael S. Turner

It has been revealed using microlensing that a considerable part, possibly more than half, of the dark matter in the halo of our Galaxy consists of objects with a mass spectrum ranging from 0.05 to 0.8 of the solar mass. What is the nature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Gurevich , K. P. Zybin , V. A. Sirota

At very large densities and/or temperatures a quark-hadron phase transition is expected to take place. Simulations of QCD on lattice at zero baryon density indicate that the transition occurs at $T_c \sim 150-170$ MeV. The calculations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. C. Phatak , P. K. Sahu

Dark matter has been recognized as an essential part of matter for over 70 years now, and many suggestions have been made, what it could be. Most of these ideas have centered on Cold Dark Matter, particles that are predicted in extensions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Peter L. Biermann , Faustin Munyaneza

In this paper we present a possible origin of dark matter and dark energy from a solution of the Einstein's equation to a primordial universe, which was presented in a previous paper. We also analyze the Dirac's equation in this primordial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-01 A. C. V. V. de Siqueira

Dark matter is a vital component of the current best model of our universe, $\Lambda$CDM. There are leading candidates for what the dark matter could be (e.g. weakly-interacting massive particles, or axions), but no compelling observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-06 David M. Jacobs , Glenn D. Starkman , Bryan W. Lynn

We consider a cosmological scenario where a relativistic particle and a stable massive particle are simultaneously produced from the decay of a late-decaying particle after Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis but before matter-radiation equality. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Manuel A. Buen-Abad , Raymond T. Co , Keisuke Harigaya